PTA may refer to:

Organizations

  • Andalusia Technology Park (), a science park in Málaga, Spain
  • Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, an agency in Pakistan responsible for communication networks.
  • Parent–teacher association, an organization of parents, teachers, and staff at a school
  • Passenger transport authority, a United Kingdom local government authority
  • Public Transport Authority (Denmark)
  • Public Transport Authority (Western Australia)

Science and medicine

  • 1,3,5-Triaza-7-phosphaadamantane, organic compound
  • Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, surgical procedure
  • Peritonsillar abscess
  • Persistent truncus arteriosus, congenital heart disease
  • Pharmacy technical assistant
  • Phosphate acetyltransferase, enzyme
  • Phosphotungstic acid, acid catalyst and stain
  • Physical therapist assistant
  • Plasma thromboplastin antecedent, blood enzyme
  • Plasma transferred arc, coating technology
  • Post-traumatic amnesia, state of confusion following a traumatic brain injury
  • Pulsar timing array, technique to detect gravitational waves
  • Pure tone audiometry, hearing test
  • Purified terephthalic acid, organic compound used to make polyester

Other uses

  • Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
  • a possible mnemonic symbol for Peseta, the former Spanish currency
  • Postal code for Pietà, Malta
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles, a 1987 American film by John Hughes
  • Pohakuloa Training Area, a military training facility
  • Point of total assumption, a contract term
  • Port Talbot Parkway railway station in Wales (station code)
  • Preferential trading area, a type of trading bloc
  • Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa
  • Prevention of Terrorism Act, the name of several countries' Acts of Parliament
  • Program test authority, after a construction permit but before a broadcast license

See also

  • Ptah (disambiguation)