Pa

Places

• Pa, Burkina Faso, a department in Balé Province, West Africa
• Pā (Māori)
  Pa (Maori)
  The word pā traditionally refers to a Māori village or settlement. In contemporary Western usage, it has come to refer to a Māori hillfort from the 17th - 19th centuries, that was fortified with palisades and earthworks such as defensive terraces. Prior to the 1960s, any Māori settlement,...
  
  , a fortified Maori village
• PA postcode area
  PA postcode area
  The PA postcode area, also known as the Paisley postcode area, is a group of postal districts around Appin, Bishopton, Bridge of Orchy, Bridge of Weir, Cairndow, Campbeltown, Colintraive, Dalmally, Dunoon, Erskine, Gourock, Greenock, Inveraray, Isle of Bute, Isle of Coll, Isle of Colonsay, Isle of...
  
  , named after Paisley
  Paisley
  Paisley is a town and a former burgh in the west-Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is situated on the northern edge of the Gleniffer Braes, straddling the banks of the River Cart...
  
  , Scotland, United Kingdom
• Palo Alto, California
  Palo Alto, California
  Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. It is named after a tree called El Palo Alto...
  
  
• Panama
  Panama
  Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of both Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the...
  
   (ISO country code)
• Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
  
   (United States postal abbreviation)
• Port Arthur
  Port Arthur
  Port Arthur may refer to:* Port Arthur, Tasmania , the site of a historic convict settlement* Port Arthur, Texas a city in the * Port Arthur, Ontario , a former city, now a part of Thunder Bay...
  
  
• Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
  Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
  Prince Albert is the third-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is situated in the centre of the province on the banks along the North Saskatchewan River. The city is known as the "Gateway to the North" because it is the last major centre along the route to the resources of northern Saskatchewan...
  
  , Canada

Science and technology

• PA-RISC
  PA-RISC
  PA-RISC is an instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard. As the name implies, it is a reduced instruction set computer architecture, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture...
  
   instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
• Paper size#PA series
• Pascal (unit)
  Pascal (unit)
  The pascal is the SI derived unit of pressure, stress, Young's modulus and tensile strength. It is a measure of force per unit area, defined as one newton per square metre...
  
  , SI derived unit of pressure
• Peano axioms
  Peano axioms
  In mathematical logic, the Peano axioms, also known as the Dedekind–Peano axioms or the Peano postulates, are a set of axioms for the natural numbers presented by the 19th century Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano...
  
   in mathematical logic
• Physician assistant
  Physician assistant
  A physician assistant ' is a healthcare professional licensed to practice medicine with supervision of a licensed physician. A physician assistant is concerned with preventing, maintaining, and treating human illness and injury by providing a broad range of health care services that are...
  
  , an advanced medical practice clinician
• Polyacetylene
  Polyacetylene
  Polyacetylene is an organic polymer with the repeat unit _n. The high electrical conductivity discovered for these polymers in the 1970’s accelerated interest in the use of organic compounds in microelectronics...
  
  
• Polyamide
  Polyamide
  A polyamide is a polymer containing monomers of amides joined by peptide bonds. They can occur both naturally, examples being proteins, such as wool and silk, and can be made artificially through step-growth polymerization, examples being nylons, aramids, and sodium poly.- Production from monomers...
  
  
• Power amplifier
• proanthocyanidins
• Protactinium
  Protactinium
  Protactinium is a chemical element with the symbol Pa and atomic number 91. Its longest-lived and most abundant naturally-occurring isotope by far, Pa-231, is a decay product of uranium-235 , and it has a half-life of 32,760 years...
  
  , a chemical element
• Public address
  Public address
  A public address or "PA" system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a given sound, e.g., a person making a speech, a DJ playing prerecorded music, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.Simple PA systems are often...
  
   system, amplification equipment
• Production assistant
  Production assistant
  A production assistant, also known as a PA, is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person responsible for various aspects of a production...
  
  , job title in filmmaking and television
• Provider Aggregatable Address Space
  Provider Aggregatable Address Space
  Provider Aggregatable Address Space are Internet Protocol addresses assigned by Regional Internet Registries directly to an Internet Service Provider which can be aggregated into a single route advertisement for improved internet routing efficiency.Unlike Provider Independent Address Space IP...
  
  
• Postero-Anterior, in medical science, refers to an X-ray
  X-ray
  X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays...
  
   where the patient faces away from X-ray source; X-rays pass from their source to patients back through the body to exit through the anterior body wall to expose the film
• The position angle
  Position angle
  Position angle, usually abbreviated PA, is a measurement derived from observing visual binary stars. It is defined as the angular offset in degrees of the secondary star to the primary, relative to the north celestial pole....
  
   of a binary star
  Binary star
  A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star, comes, or secondary...
  
   system.
• Public address
  Public address
  A public address or "PA" system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a given sound, e.g., a person making a speech, a DJ playing prerecorded music, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.Simple PA systems are often...
  
   system used to amplify speech or music so that they may be heard by large crowds of people, especially outdoors

Business

• Postal Address
• PA Consulting Group
  PA Consulting Group
  PA Consulting Group is an international management consulting firm. As of 2007 it operates in more than 35 countries, working in both private and public sectors. It has won independent awards and recognition for its client work in financial services, energy, life sciences and healthcare,...
  
  
• Personal assistant
  Personal assistant
  A personal assistant, or personal aide, is someone who assists in daily business and personal tasks.For example, a businessman or businesswoman may have a personal assistant to help with time and diary management, scheduling of meetings, correspondence and note taking. The title of a business...
  
  
• Florida Coastal Airlines
  Florida Coastal Airlines
  Florida Coastal Airlines is an airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. It operates services between Florida and the [Bahamas] [Cuba] and [Haiti]- History :...
  
  , IATA airline designator
• Pan American World Airways
  Pan American World Airways
  Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the "flagship" international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse on December 4, 1991...
  
   (Pan Am) (IATA airline designator)
• Phillips Academy
  Phillips Academy
  Phillips Academy is a co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12...
  
  , a private secondary school in Massachusetts, USA
• Pinkerton Academy
  Pinkerton Academy
  Pinkerton Academy is a secondary school in Derry, New Hampshire. It is the largest independent academy in the United States, serving roughly 3,600 students as the high school for the communities of Derry, Hampstead and Chester and Auburn...
  
  , a school in Derry, NH
• Piper Aircraft, the type designator prefix
• Press Association
  Press Association
  The Press Association is an international news agency in the United Kingdom and Ireland, supplying news wire to almost all national and local newspapers, television and radio news, as well as many websites. It was founded in 1868 by a consortium of provincial newspaper proprietors as a co-operative...
  
  
• Princess Auto
  Princess auto
  Princess Auto is a Canadian retail chain specializing in farm, industrial, garage, and surplus items. Started in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1942, by a Mr. Harvey Tallman who traded his truck for the business, Princess Auto quickly grew to one of the most competitive industrial supply chains in Canada...
  
  , a Canadian retail chain

Politics

• Practicing Attorney
• Palestinian National Authority
  Palestinian National Authority
  The Palestinian National Authority is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip....
  
  , interim organization that nominally governs parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
• People's Association
  People's Association
  The People's Association is a statutory board of the Government of Singapore under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, with the primary aim of building social cohesion and fostering interactions and bonds between itself and society at large...
  
  , in Singapore
• Andalusian Party, a Spanish (Andalusian) Party

Military

• Philippine Army
  Philippine Army
  The Philippine Army is the ground arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines . Its official name in Filipino is Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas. As of 2008, General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. served as Chief of Staff of the AFP...
  
  , the ground arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
• Pakistan Army
  Pakistan Army
  The Pakistan Army is a branch of the Pakistan military that protects the state borders and territories.The Pakistan Army, combined with the Navy and Air Force, makes Pakistan's armed forces the sixth largest military in the world. The Army is modelled on the United Kingdom armed forces and came...
  
  , the ground arm of the Military of Pakistan
  Military of Pakistan
  The Pakistan Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of Pakistan. Pakistan Armed Forces ranked 6th in the world.The Pakistani military was first formed when the nation achieved independence from the British Empire during the Partition of British India in 1947.Its component branches...
  
  

Modern culture

• Father
  Father
  A father is defined as a male parent of any type of offspring. The adjective "paternal" refers to father, parallel to "maternal" for mother.-Father-child relationship:The Father-child relationship is the defining factor of the fatherhood role...
  
  
• Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa
  Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa
  Mythical monkey-ancestor of the Tibetan people. He is, with King Gesar and Avalokiteśvara, one of the most important figures of the Tibetan culture. Sometimes he is considered as the incarnation of the bodhisattva of the compassion...
  
  , Tibetan people ancestor.
• P.A.
  P.A.
  P.A. are a southern hip hop trio, part of the Atlanta-based Dungeon Family. Its members include Mello, K.P. and Big Reese.-Discography:*Ghetto Street Funk *Straight No Chase...
  
  , a southern hip hop trio in Atlanta
• LivePA
  LivePA
  Live PA, sometimes written LivePA, meaning Live Personal Appearance or Live Performance Artist is a term used to describe the act of performing, or appearing to perform, electronic music in a concert setting....
  
  , a live performance artist or personal appearance
• Parental advisory
  Parental Advisory
  Parental Advisory is a message affixed by the Recording Industry Association of America to audio and recordings in the United States containing excessive use of offensive language. Albums began to be labeled for "explicit lyrics" in 1985, after pressure from the Parents Music Resource Center...
  
  , a warning label used on audio records
• Passive Aggressive
• Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and gaming culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic strip...
  
  , a popular gaming webcomic
• Per annum
• PortableApps.com
  PortableApps.com
  The PortableApps.com project is a compilation of free and open source portable software for Windows with downloads hosted by SourceForge.net where it had nearly 100 million downloads of applications repackaged for portableapps.com . The project is led by founder John T...
  
   A website for portable applications
• Plate appearance
  Plate appearance
  In baseball statistics, a player is credited with a plate appearance each time he completes a turn batting. A player completes a turn batting when: He strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base; or He reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ; or He hits a fair ball which...
  
  , a statistic in baseball
• Prince Albert piercing
  Prince Albert piercing
  For other uses of "Prince Albert", see Prince Albert The Prince Albert piercing is one of the more common male genital piercings. The PA pierces the penis from the outside of the frenulum and into the urethra...
  
  , a form of male genital piercing
• Production assistant
  Production assistant
  A production assistant, also known as a PA, is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person responsible for various aspects of a production...
  
  , a title in the film industry
• Pro-Ana
  Pro-ana
  Pro-ana refers to the promotion of anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder. It is often referred to simply as "ana" and is sometimes affectionately personified by anorexics as a girl named Ana...
  
  , Pro-Anorexia
• Punjabi language
  Punjabi language
  Punjabi or Panjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region ....
  
  (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)