TA

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TA may mean:

• TA Associates, one of world's oldest and largest private equity firms, based in Boston
• the IATA code for TACA airlines
• terampere or Tera-ampere, an SI unit of electric current, 10¹² A
• EMD TA, a type of locomotive
• City of Tel Aviv
• T.A., the sixth album by the post-rock band Trans Am

TA may also stand for:

• Teaching assistant, a junior scholar employed on a temporary contract by a college or university in teaching-related responsibilities.
  • Teaching assistant (United Kingdom), a support assistant working in schools to support teachers and pupils.
• Technical analysis, the study of the trading history of a market to predict future prices
• Terephthalic acid, an isomer of the three phthalic acids
• Terminal adapter, a device for connecting an ISDN channel to a computer
• Territorial Army, part of the British Army
• Traffic Advisory, in aviation
• Traffic analysis, a method of analysing encrypted messages
• Traffic Announcement, a feature of Radio Data System
• Transactional analysis, a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s

TA may stand for the following proper nouns:

• Takoma Academy, a private school located in Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.
• Telluride Association, an American non-profit organization providing scholarships and summer seminars
• Terminologia Anatomica, an international standard for human anatomical nomenclature
• TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website
• Thayer Academy, a private school located in Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S.
• Third Age of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
• Titratable acidity, an approximation of total acidity
• Total Annihilation, a computer game
• Travelcenters of America, a large truck stop chain in USA and Canada
• Transportation Alternatives, advocacy NGO based in New York City

[edit] See also

• Ta (disambiguation), the word
• T & A