TA
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"
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Etymology 1 edit
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TA
- (metrology) Symbol for teraampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 1012 amperes.
Etymology 2 edit
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TA
- (international standards) Exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tristan da Cunha.
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This is an exceptionally reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the Universal Postal Union for the purpose of assigning a stamp issuing area, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO outside of that purpose.
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Proper noun edit
TA
- Initialism of Territorial Army.
Noun edit
TA (countable and uncountable, plural TAs)
- (countable) Initialism of transportation authority.
- (countable) Initialism of teaching assistant.
- (countable) Initialism of travel agent.
- (countable) Initialism of target audience.
- (countable, aviation) Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
- (uncountable) Initialism of transactional analysis.
- (uncountable, insurance) Initialism of term assurance.
Verb edit
TA (third-person singular simple present TAs or TA's, present participle TAing or TA'ing, simple past and past participle TAed or TAd or TA'ed or TA'd)
- (intransitive, transitive) To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
- The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.
- I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.
Adjective edit
TA (not comparable)
- (microbiology) Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.
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Pronoun edit
TA
- (Mainland China, Internet slang) An alternative spelling of the third-person pronoun 他 (tā)/她 (tā) that is explicitly gender-neutral: they; them
- Synonym: X也
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Noun edit
TA (first-person possessive TAku, second-person possessive TAmu, third-person possessive TAnya)
- (education) Initialism of tahun ajaran.
- (education) Initialism of tahun akademik.
- (education) Initialism of tugas akhir.
- (finance) Initialism of tahun anggaran.
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TA
- (education, colloquial) Initialism of titip absen.
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Proper noun edit
TA
- Abbreviation of Tamaulipas. (Mexican state)