TA

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Etymology 1

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Symbol

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TA

  1. (metrology) Symbol for teraampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 1012 amperes.

Etymology 2

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Symbol

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TA

  1. (international standards) Exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tristan da Cunha.
    Synonym: TAA (alpha-3)
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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.

English

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Proper noun

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TA

  1. Initialism of Territorial Army.

Noun

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TA (countable and uncountable, plural TAs)

  1. (countable) Initialism of transportation authority.
  2. (countable) Initialism of teaching assistant.
  3. (countable) Initialism of travel agent.
  4. (countable) Initialism of target audience.
  5. (countable, aviation) Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
  6. (uncountable) Initialism of transactional analysis.
  7. (uncountable, insurance) Initialism of term assurance.

Verb

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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)

  1. (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

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TA (not comparable)

  1. (microbiology) Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.

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Chinese

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Pronoun

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TA

  1. (Mainland China, Internet slang) An alternative spelling of the third-person pronoun ()/ () that is explicitly gender-neutral: they; them
    Synonym: X也

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Indonesian

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Noun

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TA (first-person possessive TAku, second-person possessive TAmu, third-person possessive TAnya)

  1. (education) Initialism of tahun ajaran.
  2. (education) Initialism of tahun akademik.
  3. (education) Initialism of tugas akhir.
  4. (finance) Initialism of tahun anggaran.

Verb

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TA

  1. (education, colloquial) Initialism of titip absen.

Spanish

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Proper noun

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TA

  1. Abbreviation of Tamaulipas. (Mexican state)