# 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

## Arts, entertainment and media
### 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:ta)
* TA, a gender-neutral third person pronoun in Chinese written as latin script "TA".

## Organizations
### 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

## Science and technology
### 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 10$^{12}$ 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

## Transportation

* T/A (Trans-Am), a performamce trim for Dodge Challenger and Pontiac Firebird