MTA may refer to:

Organizations

Transportation

  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the public transport agency in the metropolitan area of New York City, United States
  • Metropolitan Transit Authority (disambiguation), which may refer to several public transport/transit agencies
  • Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Genesee County, Michigan
  • Maine Turnpike Authority, Maine
  • Manchester Transit Authority, New Hampshire
  • Maryland Transit Administration
  • Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, formerly Metropolitan Transit Authority
  • Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
  • Mendocino Transit Authority, California
  • Mountain Ash railway station, Wales, National Rail station code
  • Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority, doing business as WeGo Public Transit, Tennessee
  • San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, California
  • Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  • Mersin-Tarsus-Adana Railway, a defunct Ottoman railway company
  • Master Top Airlines, a defunct Brazilian airline company

Education

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia), Budapest, Hungary
  • Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, an Orthodox Jewish private high school in New York, New York, US
  • Mount Allison University, a university in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Musical Theatre Academy, a drama college based in London, UK

Other

  • Metrolina Theatre Association, an organization which advocates performing arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, US
  • MTA Records, More Than Alot Records, a record label
  • MTA International, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International, a satellite television network
  • Move to Amend, a U.S. political advocacy organization that seeks to amend the Constitution
  • Manufacturing Technologies Association, a UK trade association
  • Market Technicians Association, a non-profit organization of technical analysts
  • General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (Turkey), known as MTA
  • Michigan Townships Association, an association of US township governments
  • Mong Tai Army, an armed rebel group
  • Metro Transit Assassins, a graffiti collective

Sports

  • Maccabi Tel Aviv, a sports club in Israel
  • Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., basketball team
  • Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., football (soccer) team
  • Maximum time aloft, a sporting event with a boomerang

Science and technology

  • methylthioadenosine, a cofactor in biochemistry
  • 4-Methylthioamphetamine, a designer drug of the substituted amphetamine class developed in the 1990s
  • Material transfer agreement, governing the transfer of research materials between two organizations
  • Mineral trioxide aggregate, dental material, used in endodontics and vital pulp therapy
  • MTA (Swedish: Mobiltelefonisystem A), a former manual mobile network in Sweden
  • Medial temporal lobe type of brain atrophy.
  • Mousterian of Acheulean tradition <sub>(fr)</sub>, a cultural and technological facies of the Mousterian<!-- mamy scientific papers in English use this acronym. Some also use "MAT". -->

Computing

  • Cray MTA-2, a supercomputer based on the design of the never-built Tera MTA
  • Message transfer agent or mail transfer agent, software that transfers e-mail between computers
  • Multi-touch attribution is a form of attribution (marketing)
  • Multimedia terminal adapter, a combination cable modem and telephone adapter
  • Multi-Threaded Apartment, a concept used in Microsoft's Component Object Model programming architecture
  • Microsoft Technology Associate, a certification scheme run by Microsoft

Gaming

  • Multi Theft Auto, a mod for computer games in the PC game series Grand Theft Auto

Other uses

  • "M.T.A." (song), or "Charlie on the M.T.A.", a 1959 hit song by The Kingston Trio
  • Major trading area, a geographic region of the US surrounding a major city; See List of Basic Trading Areas
  • Mall Taman Anggrek, a shopping center in West Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Mid-term adjustment, a change in an insurance policy
  • Military Technical Agreement, treaty ending the Kosovo War in June 1999
  • Milk Tea Alliance, an online democracy and human rights movement
  • Farmall M-TA, a widely used model in the Farmall M tractor series
  • UAC/HAL Il-214 Multirole Transport Aircraft, a planned medium-lift military transport

See also

  • Metastasis-associated protein:
  • MTA1
  • MTA2
  • MTA3