TA

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

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

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 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: )

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

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