Tea (disambiguation)

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

• Herbal tea - any herbal infusion other than from the leaves of the tea bush
• Tea (meal), any of several mealtimes, depending on different regional customs, (usu. western cultures, such as British)
• Traditional English Ale, a beer made by Hogs Back Brewery

Technology and science

• Tea (programming language), a high level scripting language for the Java environment combining features from Scheme, Tcl and Java
• Tiny Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher notable for its simplicity of description and implementation
• TEA laser, Transverse Excitation at Atmospheric pressure

Medicine

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

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
• Triethylamine, a colorless, "fishy"-smelling organic chemical used in chemical synthesis

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
• 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)

Other

• Tea, South Dakota, a suburb of Sioux Falls
• Tea River, a river in Brazil
• Tea break, the second of two daily intervals during certain types of cricket
• Tea, a novel by Stacey D'Erasmo, published in 2000
• Tea: A Mirror of Soul, an 2002 opera by composer Tan Dun
• Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, an act that authorized the U.S. Federal surface transportation programs for highways in 1998–2003
• Tea Vikstedt-Nyman (born 1959), Finnish racing cyclist
• Tea, a slang term for marijuana
• T.E.A. (Test of English for Aviation)

See also

• Tee
• All pages beginning with "Tea"