Tea (disambiguation)

Look up Tea, tea, or TEA in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Tea or TEA can mean:

• Tea, a traditional beverage made from steeping the processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush (Camellia sinensis) in water.

Beverage and food

• Tea (meal), any of several mealtimes, depending on different regional customs, (usu. western cultures, such as British)
• Herbal tea, or tisane, a catch-all term for any non-caffeinated beverage made from the infusion or decoction of herbs, spices, or other plant material

Chemistry

• Tetraethylammonium, a potassium channel blocker used in neurophysiology
• Triethanolamine, an organic chemical used in cosmetics and to bind aluminium ions
• Triethylaluminium, a volatile organic chemical used in jet engines and as co-catalyst in olefin polymerization
• Triethylamine, a colorless, "fishy"-smelling organic chemical used in chemical synthesis
• 5-epiaristolochene synthase, an enzyme
• Thermal Energy Analyzer analytical detector for TSNA

Geography

• Tea, South Dakota, a suburb of Sioux Falls
• Tea River, a river in Brazil

Media and music

• Tea, a novel by Stacey D'Erasmo, published in 2000
• Tea: A Mirror of Soul, a 2002 opera by composer Tan Dun

Medicine

• TEAS test (Test of Essential Academic Skills), a standardized test for nursing school admission
• Transient epileptic amnesia, a temporal lobe epilepsy
• Thrombendarterectomy, see Thrombectomy

Organizations and companies

• Tamil Eelam Army, a defunct Tamil separatist group in Sri Lanka
• Texas Economics Association, a student organization at the University of Texas at Austin
• Texas Education Agency, a branch of the Texas, USA state government which oversees public primary and secondary education
• Themed Entertainment Association, a group representing people involved in theme parks and similar attractions
• Thorium Energy Alliance
• Tirupur Exporters' Association, an association of cotton knitwear exporters from Tirupur, India
• Trans European Airways, Belgium-based airline, now defunct
• Trenes Especiales Argentinos (Spanish: "Special Argentine Trains"), a private railway company in Argentina
• Trustees Executors and Agency Company, collapsed Australian trustee company (1879–1983)

Sports

• Tea Grubišić (born 1985), Croatian Handpall player
• Tea Vikstedt-Nyman (born 1959), Finnish racing cyclist
• Tea break, the second of two daily intervals during certain types of cricket

Technology and science

• Tea (programming language), a high level scripting language for the Java environment combining features from Scheme, Tcl and Java
• TEA laser, Transverse Excitation at Atmospheric pressure
• Tiny Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher notable for its simplicity of description and implementation
• TETRA Encryption Algorithm, an encryption algorithm used in Terrestrial Trunked Radio
• Tea (genus), a genus of spider hunting wasps

People

• Tea (given name), a feminine given name
• Tea (family name), a Cambodian given name
• Téa, a feminine given name

Other

• Targeted Employment Area, a designation for a region of the United States where the threshold for investment to apply for an EB-5 visa is $500,000 instead of the usual $1,000,000.
• Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, an act that authorized the U.S. Federal surface transportation programs for highways in 1998–2003
• Tea, a slang term for marijuana
• T.E.A. (Test of English for Aviation)
• 453 Tea, an asteroid

See also

• Tee
• All pages beginning with "Tea"