PGA
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PGA is:- the IATAInternational Air Transport AssociationThe International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...
airport code for Page Municipal AirportPage Municipal AirportPage Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile east of the central business district of the City of Page, in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. It is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial airline...
, Coconino County, Arizona, USA - the ICAOInternational Civil Aviation OrganizationThe International Civil Aviation Organization , pronounced , , is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth...
airline designator for PortugáliaPortugáliaPortugália is a regional airline with its head office in Lisbon, Portugal, and a subsidiary of TAP Portugal. When it was an independent company its head office was in Building 70 on the grounds of Portela Airport in Lisbon...
, a regional airline based in Lisbon, Portugal - the abbreviation of programmable gain amplifierProgrammable gain amplifierA programmable gain amplifier is an electronic amplifier whose gain can be controlled by external digital or analog signals.The gains can be set from less than 1V/V to over 100V/V...
- the NYSENew York Stock ExchangeThe New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
ticker for Personnel Group of America
pga is:
- the ISOInternational Organization for StandardizationThe International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...
639-3ISO 639-3ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages. It extends the ISO 639-2...
language code for Juba Arabic (also known as Sudanese Creole Arabic) language
Organizations
- Parliamentarians for Global ActionParliamentarians for Global ActionParliamentarians for Global Action is a non-profit and non-partisan international organization of more than 1,300 free elected legislators from 130 democratic countries . It was established circa 1978 as Parliamentarians for World Order engaged in a range of action-oriented initiatives that promote...
, an international parliamentary group that engage in a range of action-oriented initiatives. - Peoples' Global ActionPeoples' Global ActionPeoples' Global Action is the name of a worldwide co-ordination of radical social movements, grassroots campaigns and direct actions in resistance to capitalism and for social and environmental justice...
, a worldwide co-ordination of radical social movements - Producers Guild of AmericaProducers Guild of AmericaProducers Guild of America is a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 4,700 members of the producing establishment worldwide...
, an organization representing television producers, film producers and new media producers in USA - Professional Golfers' AssociationProfessional Golfers AssociationProfessional Golfers' Association, , is the usual term for a professional association in men's golf. It is often abbreviated to PGA...
(with or without the apostrophe), a usual term for a professional association in men's golf- PGA ChampionshipPGA ChampionshipThe PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...
, one of the four men's major golf championshipsMen's major golf championshipsThe men's major golf championships, commonly known as the Major Championships, and often referred to simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf...
- PGA Championship
Chemistry
- 3-Phosphoglyceric acid (or glycerate 3-phosphate), a сhemical substance that is a metabolic intermediate in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
- Pile Grade A, a type of graphite used as a moderator and structural component in certain nuclear reactor cores.
- Polyglutamic acid, a polymer of the glutamic acid (one of proteinogenic amino acids)
- Polyglycolic acid, another name for polyglycolidePolyglycolidePolyglycolide or Polyglycolic acid is a biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer and the simplest linear, aliphatic polyester. It can be prepared starting from glycolic acid by means of polycondensation or ring-opening polymerization. PGA has been known since 1954 as a tough fiber-forming polymer...
- Propylene glycol alginatePropylene glycol alginatePropylene glycol alginate is an emulsifier, stabilizer, and thickener used in food products. It is a food additive with E number E405. Chemically, propylene glycol alginate is an ester of alginic acid, which is derived from kelp...
(E405), an emulsifier, stabilizer, and thickener used in food products - ProstaglandinProstaglandinA prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body. Every prostaglandin contains 20 carbon atoms, including a 5-carbon ring....
of the A type - Pteroyglutamic acid
Mathematics
- Principal geodesic analysisPrincipal geodesic analysisIn geometric data analysis and statistical shape analysis, principal geodesic analysis is a generalization of principal component analysis to a non-Euclidean, non-linear setting of manifolds suitable for use with shape descriptors such as medial representations....
, a generalization of principal component analysis
Medicine
- Polyglandular autoimmune syndromes, another name for autoimmune polyendocrine syndromeAutoimmune polyendocrine syndromeIn medicine, autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes are a heterogeneous group of rare diseases characterised by autoimmune activity against more than one endocrine organs, although non-endocrine organs can be affected....
s (diseases in which multiple endocrine glands secrete insufficient or excess amounts of hormones)
Computing
- Perl Golf ApocalypsePerl Golf ApocalypsePerl Golf Apocalypse is a Perl coding competition with the objective of solving a basic programming task with the smallest perl code possible. The competition has its roots in the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc which had threads where each poster tried to solve a basic problem with shorter code...
, a PerlPerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
coding competition - Policy gradient algorithms, reinforcement learningReinforcement learningInspired by behaviorist psychology, reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning in computer science, concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of cumulative reward...
algorithms that adapt a parameterized policy by following a performance gradient estimate - Terms used in Oracle DatabaseOracle DatabaseThe Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
software system:- Process Global Area, a memory region reserved for each process that uses Oracle
- Program Global Area, a memory region that stores the data and control information for the server processes in Oracle
- Other names for Professional Graphics ControllerProfessional Graphics ControllerProfessional Graphics Controller was a graphics card manufactured by IBM for the PC. It consisted of three interconnected PCBs, and contained its own processor and memory....
, an IBM XT graphics card intended for the CAD market:- Professional Graphics Adapter
- Professional Graphics Array
Electronics
- Pin grid arrayPin grid arrayA pin grid array, often abbreviated PGA, is a type of integrated circuit packaging. In a PGA, the package is square or roughly square, and the pins are arranged in a regular array on the underside of the package...
, a type of packaging for integrated circuits - Programmable gain amplifierProgrammable gain amplifierA programmable gain amplifier is an electronic amplifier whose gain can be controlled by external digital or analog signals.The gains can be set from less than 1V/V to over 100V/V...
, an amplifier whose gain can be changed during its operation - Programmable gate array, a semiconductor device containing programmable logic components and programmable interconnects (vast majority of today's PGAs are field-programmable gate arrayField-programmable gate arrayA field-programmable gate array is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing—hence "field-programmable"...
s, or FPGAs)
Miscellaneous
- Pure grain alcohol, another name for neutral grain spiritNeutral grain spiritNeutral grain spirit is a clear, colorless, flammable liquid that has been distilled from a grain-based mash to a very high level of ethanol content...