TA or ta may refer to:

Places Ta (island), Federated States of Micronesia Ta, Chiang Rai, Thailand Ta, Iran, Kordestan village Ta River, Virginia, US Province of Taranto, Italy Tel Aviv, Israel

People with the name Tạ, a Vietnamese surname (including a list of persons with the name) T.A. All Day, an American rapper

Arts, entertainment and media Gaming Total Annihilation, a 1997 real-time strategy game TrueAchievements, a website to track Xbox player achievements

Music TA (album), 2002 album by the post-rock band Trans Am Ta, name of a note in the solfège scale

Newspapers Tages-Anzeiger, of Switzerland Telemarksavisa, of Norway Thüringer Allgemeine, of Germany

Other uses in arts and media TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website Third Age, a time period in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth TA3 (TV channel, 1991–1992), a defunct Slovakian television channel

Business, finance and law

TA Luft, a German air pollution regulation Technical analysis, method to forecast pricing from trading history Trading as, a term denoting a business using a name other than its legal owner

Education

Teaching assistant, someone who aids an educator with class instruction Paraprofessional educator, a qualified, paid assistant of compulsory-age pupils Teaching assistant (United Kingdom)

Language Ta (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign Ta (Indic), a consonant in Brahmic writing systems Ṭa (Indic), another consonant in Brahmic scripts Ta (Javanese) (ꦠ), a letter of the Javanese script Ta (kana), the た or タ kana of Japanese Tāʾ ت or ṭāʾ ط, an Arabic letter Tamil language, spoken in South Asia (ISO 639-1:ta) TA, a gender-neutral third person pronoun in Chinese written as Latin script "TA".

Organizations Companies TA Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston TACA Airlines, an international airline headquartered in San Salvador, El Salvador (IATA code TA) Travelcenters of America, a North American truck stop chain Triumph-Adler, a German office equipment manufacturer

Military Territorial Army (India), an Army Reserve Territorial Army (United Kingdom), now Army Reserve

Schools Takoma Academy, a private school in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States Talmudical Academy of Baltimore Thayer Academy, a private school in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States Tuscaloosa Academy, a private school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Other organizations Telluride Association, an American non-profit for education programs Tennis Australia, an Australian sports governing body Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy NGO based in New York City Team Ayu, the official fan club of Japanese singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki

Science and technology Biology, medicine and psychology Takayasu's arteritis Terminologia Anatomica, an international standard for human anatomical nomenclature Tibialis anterior muscle Transactional analysis, a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s Transversus abdominis muscle

Physics and chemistry Tantalum, symbol Ta, a chemical element Teraampere, a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere Transient absorption spectroscopy, a type of time-resolved spectroscopy

Other uses in science and technology EMC TA, an American diesel-powered locomotive Technician or technical assistant, in laboratories Teraannum, a unit of time equal to 1012 years Terminal adapter, a device that connects a terminal computer to an ISDN network Thematic analysis, a research method in social and applied sciences Traffic announcement (radio data systems), a feature of radio data systems Traffic Advisory, a TCAS alert

Transportation T/A (Trans-Am), a performance trim for Dodge Challenger and Pontiac Firebird

See also T & A (disambiguation)