PGA

PGA is an Initialism that may stand for:

Codes

PGA is:

• the IATA airport code for Page Municipal Airport, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
• the ICAO airline designator for Portugália, a regional airline based in Lisbon, Portugal
• the abbreviation of programmable gain amplifier
• the NYSE ticker for Personnel Group of America

pga is:

• the ISO 639-3 language code for Juba Arabic (also known as Sudanese Creole Arabic) language

Organizations

• Parliamentarians for Global Action, an international parliamentary group that engage in a range of action-oriented initiatives.
• Peoples' Global Action, a worldwide co-ordination of radical social movements
• Producers Guild of America, an organization representing television producers, film producers and new media producers in USA
• Professional Golfers' Association (with or without the apostrophe), a usual term for a professional association in men's golf
  • PGA Championship, one of the four men's major golf championships

Science

Chemistry

• 3-Phosphoglyceric acid (or glycerate 3-phosphate), a сhemical substance that is a metabolic intermediate in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
• Pile Grade A, a type of graphite used as a moderator and structural component in certain nuclear reactor cores.
• Polyglutamic acid, a polymer of the glutamic acid (one of proteinogenic amino acids)
• Polyglycolic acid, another name for polyglycolide
• Propylene glycol alginate (E405), an emulsifier, stabilizer, and thickener used in food products
• Prostaglandin of the A type
• Pteroyglutamic acid

Geology

• Peak ground acceleration, measure of ground acceleration during an earthquake

Mathematics

• Principal geodesic analysis, a generalization of principal component analysis

Medicine

• Polyglandular autoimmune syndromes, another name for autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes (diseases in which multiple endocrine glands secrete insufficient or excess amounts of hormones)

Technology

Computing

• Perl Golf Apocalypse, a Perl coding competition
• Policy gradient algorithms, reinforcement learning algorithms that adapt a parameterized policy by following a performance gradient estimate
• Terms used in Oracle Database software system:
  • Process Global Area, a memory region reserved for each process that uses Oracle
  • Program Global Area, a memory region that stores the data and control information for the server processes in Oracle
• Other names for Professional Graphics Controller, an IBM XT graphics card intended for the CAD market:
  • Professional Graphics Adapter
  • Professional Graphics Array

Electronics

• Pin grid array, a type of packaging for integrated circuits
• Programmable gain amplifier, an amplifier whose gain can be changed during its operation
• Programmable gate array, a semiconductor device containing programmable logic components and programmable interconnects (vast majority of today's PGAs are field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs)

Miscellaneous

• Pure grain alcohol, another name for neutral grain spirit