TA

TA may be an abbreviation for:

Entertainment

• Third Age of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
• Tichina Arnold, an American actress
• The Ataris, an American rock-puck band
• T.A. (album), 2002 album by the post-rock band Trans Am
• T.A. All Day, an American rapper
• Total Annihilation, a 1997 computer game

Technology

• Technical architect, an information systems professional involved in technical architecture, the infrastructure that supports higher architectural layers
• Technical author, an alternative name for a technical writer, a professional writer responsible for creating technical documentation
• Terminal adapter
• Thermal Analysis, a group of techniques that study the relationship between a sample property and its temperature
• Transmitter Address, (network technology) the address of the sender in the Media access control (MAC) protocol.
• Traffic Announcement, a feature of Radio Data System

Science

• Terminologia Anatomica, an international standard for human anatomical nomenclature
• Territorial Army (United Kingdom), the volunteer reserve force of the British Army
• TextAmerica, a moblog community photo website
• Thayer Academy, a private school in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
• Tibialis anterior muscle
• Transverse abdominal muscle
• Titratable acidity, an approximation of total acidity
• Toxin-antitoxin system, a biological mechanism for stabilising plasmids
• Transactional analysis, a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s
• Technical analysis, the study of the trading history of a market to predict future prices

Others

• EMC TA, an American diesel-powered locomotive
• TA Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston
• TA Luft, a German air pollution control regulations
• Takoma Academy, a private school in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
• Talmudical Academy of Baltimore
• Tamil language
• Province of Taranto, Italy
• Teaching assistant, an individual who assists a university or college professor with instructional responsibilities
  • Teaching assistant (United Kingdom), a classroom aide in schools
• Tel Aviv, Israel
• Telluride Association, an American non-profit organization that provides education programs
• Tennis Australia, the Australian tennis body
• Trading as, a term used to denote a business using a name other than the name of its owner(s)
• Traffic accident
• Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy NGO based in New York City
• Travelcenters of America, a North American truck stop chain

See also

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