CTA may refer to:

Legislation

Children's Television Act The broadcast of educational Children's television series, children's programming by terrestrial television stations in the United States is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under regulations colloquially referred to as ...

, American legislation passed in 1990 that enforces a certain degree of educational television * Corporate Transparency Act, Title LXIV of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 * Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 *

Criminal Tribes Act Since the 1870s, various pieces of colonialism, colonial legislation in India during British Raj, British rule were collectively called the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). This criminalised entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals ...

, British legislation in India passed in 1871 which labelled entire communities as criminal

Organizations

Asia

* Central Tibetan Administration * China Tourism Academy *

Chinese Taoist Association Chinese Taoist Association (CTA; ), founded in April 1957, is the official government supervisory organ of Taoism in the People's Republic of China. History In 1980, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party approved a request by t ...

* Crystal Thai Airlines

Europe, Africa, and South America

*Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (CTA; ; DCTA), Brazilian Air Force * Cairo Transportation Authority * Central de los Trabajadores Argentinos * Central African Republic national football team (FIFA code CTA) * Cyprus Turkish Airlines * Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) * CTA International

North America

* California Teachers Association, a labor union * California Technology Agency, a California cabinet-level state agency * Call to Action, a Christian organization *

Canadian Transportation Agency The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA; , OTC) is the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal of the Government of Canada that makes decisions relating to federally-regulated modes of transportation ( air, rail and marine). Its headquarters ar ...

, an independent tribunal of the Government of Canada * Canadian Trucking Alliance, a Canadian federation of provincial trucking associations * Central Toronto Academy, formerly called Central Commerce Collegiate *

Chicago Transit Authority The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of public transport, mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and List of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes, CTA bu ...

, the official public transportation authority for the city of Chicago * Chisholm Trail Academy * Colorado Translators Association * Columbus Torah Academy *

Consolidated Tape Association The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) oversees the Securities Information Processor that disseminates real-time trade and quote information (market data) in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX) listed securities (st ...

, which oversees stock market transactions in the United States *

Consumer Technology Association The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® is North America's largest standards and technology trade organization representing more than 1,200 technology companies. CTA is led by CEO and Vice Chair Gary J. Shapiro. Trade shows CES C ...

, formerly Consumer Electronics Association

Places

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to Central African Republic–Chad border, the north, Sudan to Central African Republic–Sudan border, the northeast, South Sudan to Central ...

(FIFA code: CTA) * Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (IATA code) * Central Texas Airport

Professions

*Chartered tax adviser, a tax accountant who is a member of the: ** Chartered Institute of Taxation (UK) ** Tax Institute (Australia) (Australia) * Commodity trading advisor *

Cryptologic technician Cryptologic technician (CT) is a United States Navy enlisted rating or job specialty. The CT community performs a wide range of tasks in support of the national intelligence-gathering effort, with an emphasis on cryptology and signal intell ...

administrative

Science

* Cellulose triacetate * Chain transfer agent * Charge transfer amplifier * Cherenkov Telescope Array, a project to build a system of very high energy gamma ray telescopes. * The medical jargon "Clear to auscultation", for lungs are clear when listening; see List of medical abbreviations: C *

Computed tomography angiography Computed tomography angiography (also called CT angiography or CTA) is a computed tomography technique used for angiography—the visualization of arteries and veins—throughout the human body. Using contrast injected into the blood vessels, im ...

Conditioned taste aversion Conditioned taste aversion occurs when an animal acquires an aversion to the taste of a food that was paired with aversive stimuli. The effect explains that the aversion develops more strongly for stimuli that cause nausea than other stimuli. Thi ...

* Constant temperature anemometry * CTA, a codon for the amino acid

Leucine Leucine (symbol Leu or L) is an essential amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. Leucine is an α-amino acid, meaning it contains an α-amino group (which is in the protonated −NH3+ form under biological conditions), an α-Car ...

Other

Call to action (marketing) Call to action (CTA) is a marketing term for any text designed to prompt an immediate response or encourage an immediate sale. A CTA most often refers to the use of words or phrases that can be incorporated into sales scripts, advertising messag ...

, a web design tenet that requires each page to clearly indicate the desired user response *

Call to action (political) Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals. The aim of direct action is to either obstruct a certain practice (such as a governm ...

, a call to activists to participate in a

direct action Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals. The aim of direct action is to either obstruct a certain practice (such as a governm ...

or similar political activity * Call to arms * Cased telescoped ammunition * Central technical area, an equipment room used in broadcasting facilities *The Chicago Transit Authority, former name of the American band

Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

* Container Terminal Altenwerder * Common Tasks for Assessment, an educational programme run by the Department of Education of South Africa *

Common Travel Area The Common Travel Area (CTA; , ) is an open borders area comprising the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The British Overseas Territories are not included. Governed by non-binding agreements ...

, comprising Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands * Control area, controlled airspace that exists in the vicinity of an airport *

Copyright transfer agreement A copyright transfer agreement or copyright assignment agreement is an agreement that transfers the copyright for a work from the copyright owner to another party. This is one legal option for publishers and authors of books, magazines, movies, t ...

, used in publishing