Alta

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Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Contents 1 Acronyms 2 Place names 3 Other uses 4 See also

[edit] Acronyms

• African Language Teachers Association (ALTA), a U.S.-based association of African language teaching professionals
• American Land Title Association (ALTA), a national trade association representing the land title industry.
• American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), an association of literary translators in the United States
• Asociacion Latinoamericana de Transporte Aereo (ALTA), www.alta.aero, was founded in 1980 as a non-profit airlines association and currently includes 34 member airlines from Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA)
• Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), an association of computational linguists and people working in natural language processing that promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand.

[edit] Place names

• "Alta.", an abbreviation for Alberta, a province in Canada
• Alta, Norway
• Alta River, Ukraine

United States

• Alta California ("Upper California"), the Spanish colony that later became the state of California
• Alta, California, a town in Placer County
• Alta, Indiana
• Alta, Iowa
• Alta, Utah
  • Alta Ski Area

[edit] Other uses

• Alta Car and Engineering Company, an English automobile and a Formula One racing constructor.
• Alta (vehicles), a Greek manufacturer of cars, light trucks and motorcycles
• Alta (novel), a fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
• Alta Records, Dallas, Texas

[edit] See also

• Alta capella, a 20th century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles
• AltaVista, search engine
• Treno Alta Velocità, High Velocity Train
• Alto (disambiguation)