CTA or cta may refer to:

Legislation

  • Children's Television Act, American legislation passed in 1990 that enforces a certain degree of educational television
  • Corporate Transparency Act, Title LXIV of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
  • Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
  • Criminal Tribes Act, British legislation in India passed in 1871 which labelled entire communities as criminal

Organizations

Asia

  • Central Tibetan Administration
  • China Tourism Academy
  • Chinese Taoist Association
  • Crystal Thai Airlines

Europe, Africa, and South America

  • Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (CTA; ; DCTA), Brazilian Air Force
  • Cairo Transportation Authority
  • Central de los Trabajadores Argentinos
  • Central African Republic national football team (FIFA code CTA)
  • Cyprus Turkish Airlines
  • Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
  • CTA International

North America

  • California Teachers Association, a labor union
  • California Technology Agency, a California cabinet-level state agency
  • Call to Action, a Christian organization
  • Canadian Transportation Agency, an independent tribunal of the Government of Canada
  • Canadian Trucking Alliance, a Canadian federation of provincial trucking associations
  • Central Toronto Academy, formerly called Central Commerce Collegiate
  • Chicago Transit Authority, the official public transportation authority for the city of Chicago
  • Chisholm Trail Academy
  • Colorado Translators Association
  • Columbus Torah Academy
  • Consolidated Tape Association, oversees stock market transactions in the United States
  • Craig Tribal Association, federally recognized Native American tribe in Alasaka
  • Consumer Technology Association, formerly Consumer Electronics Association

Places

  • Central African Republic (FIFA code: CTA)
  • Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (IATA code)
  • Central Texas Airport
  • Citayam railway station (station code)

Professions

  • Chartered tax adviser, a tax accountant who is a member of the:
  • Chartered Institute of Taxation (UK)
  • Tax Institute (Australia)
  • Commodity trading advisor
  • Cryptologic technician administrative

Science

  • Cellulose triacetate
  • Chain transfer agent
  • Charge transfer amplifier
  • Cherenkov Telescope Array, a project to build a system of very high energy gamma ray telescopes.
  • The medical jargon "Clear to auscultation", for lungs are clear when listening; see List of medical abbreviations: C
  • Computed tomography angiography
  • Conditioned taste aversion
  • Constant temperature anemometry
  • CTA, a codon for the amino acid Leucine

Other

  • Call to action (marketing), a web design tenet that requires each page to clearly indicate the desired user response
  • Call to action (political), a call to activists to participate in a direct action or similar political activity
  • Call to arms
  • Cased telescoped ammunition
  • Central technical area, an equipment room used in broadcasting facilities
  • The Chicago Transit Authority, former name of the American band Chicago
  • Container Terminal Altenwerder
  • Common Tasks for Assessment, an educational programme run by the Department of Education of South Africa
  • Common Travel Area, comprising Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
  • Common Turkic Alphabet
  • Control area, controlled airspace that exists in the vicinity of an airport
  • Cold temperature airport, airports requiring special adjustments to their instrument approaches during cold weather
  • Copyright transfer agreement, used in publishing

See also

  • Chicago Transit Authority (disambiguation)
  • CTAS (disambiguation)