PA

PA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pa"

Translingual

Symbol

PA

1. (metrology) Symbol for petaampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 10¹⁵ amperes.

Symbol

PA

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Panama.

   Synonym: PAN (alpha-3)

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English

Proper noun

PA

1. Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America
   • 1979 August 3, Talking Heads (lyrics and music), “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music:

     Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? / Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?

2. Papua, a province of Indonesia
3. Pará, a state of Brazil
4. Palestinian Authority
5. Proto-Algonquian (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc)
6. Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian)
7. Proto-Athapaskan
8. Initialism of Prince Albert (“Saskatchewan city”).

Noun

PA (countable and uncountable, plural PAs)

1. Initialism of public address.
2. Initialism of personal assistant.
   • 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:

     Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
     Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
     Jen: It means "personal assistant".
     Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.

3. Initialism of personal appearance. (when a celebrity visits a public event)
4. Power amplifier.
5. Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”).
6. Public accountant.
7. (law) Public Act.
8. Initialism of physician assistant.
9. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyamide.
10. (chemistry) Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
11. Initialism of Peano arithmetic.
12. (anatomy) Initialism of pulmonary artery.
13. (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) Initialism of Parental Accompaniment.
14. Initialism of precision agriculture.
15. (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.

    Coordinate term: PF

    • 2022 December 14, “NFL Playoff picture Week 15: Are the New York Giants still in contention for the postseason?”, in Sportskeeda‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:

      The Giants and Commanders have the same record after 13 games each. However, Washington has control of third place in the NFC East due to a better PF/PA record in comparison to the Giants.

Adjective

PA (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Initialism of posteroanterior.

Related terms

• (posteroanterior): AP (“anteroposterior”)

Phrase

PA

1. Initialism of per annum.

   an interest rate of 3% PA

Anagrams

• A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.

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French

Noun

PA m (plural PA)

1. CV (“aircraft carrier”); Initialism of porte-avions.

Anagrams

• AP

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Japanese

Etymology

From English PA.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ピーエ​ー [pìíéꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
• IPA^(key): [pʲiːe̞ː]

Noun

PA(ピーエー) • (pī-ē) 

1. PA system; public address system

Derived terms

• PA(ピーエー)システム (pī-ē shisutemu)
• PA(ピーエー)ブース (pī-ē būsu)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

PA m

1. Abbreviation of Pará (“Brazilian state”).

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Spanish

Noun

PA f (plural PA)

1. (medicine) Initialism of presión arterial.
2. (biology) Initialism of potencial de acción.

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Swedish

Noun

PA c

1. Initialism of personal assistant (“personal assistant”).

   Kontakta min PA så kan de boka in en tid för mötet.

   Contact my personal assistant and they will book a time for the meeting.

See also

• personlig assistent (“unlicensed assistive personnel”)