CTA may refer to:

Legislation

Children's Television Act The broadcast of educational 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 the Children's Television Act ...

, American legislation passed in 1990 that enforces a certain degree of educational television * Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 *

Criminal Tribes Act Since the 1870s, various pieces of colonial legislation in India during British rule were collectively called the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA), which criminalized entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals. Under these acts, ethn ...

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

Organizations

Asia

Central Tibetan Administration The Central Tibetan Administration (, , ), often referred to as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, is a non-profit political organization based in Dharamshala, India. Its organization is modeled after an elective parliamentary government, compo ...

* China Tourism Academy * Chinese Taoist Association * Crystal Thai Airlines

Europe, Africa, and South America

* Cairo Transportation Authority * Central de los Trabajadores Argentinos * Cyprus Turkish Airlines * Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) *

CTA International CTA International is an equal-shares joint venture company between defence companies Nexter and BAE Systems. CTAI is based in Bourges, France, and has been established to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapons and ammunition. The compa ...

North America

* California Teachers Association, a labor union *

California Technology Agency The Department of Technology of the state of California, formerly named the California Technology Agency (CTA) is a Department in the Government Operations Agency with statutory authority over information technology (IT) strategic vision and plann ...

, a California cabinet-level state agency * Call to Action, a Christian organization * Canadian Transportation Agency, 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 mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its surrounding suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago 'L' and CTA bus service. In , the system had a ridership of , ...

, the official public transportation authority for the city of Chicago * Chisholm Trail Academy *

Colorado Translators Association The American Translators Association (ATA) is the largest professional association of translation, translators and Interpreting, interpreters in the United States with nearly 8,500 members in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1959, membership ...

* Columbus Torah Academy * Consolidated Tape Association, which oversees stock market transactions in the United States * Consumer Technology Association, formerly Consumer Electronics Association

Places

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of the C ...

(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 administrative

Science

Cellulose triacetate Cellulose triacetate, (triacetate, CTA or TAC) is a chemical compound produced from cellulose and a source of acetate esters, typically acetic anhydride. Triacetate is commonly used for the creation of fibres and film base. It is chemically si ...

* Chain transfer agent * Charge transfer amplifier *

Cherenkov Telescope Array The Cherenkov Telescope Array or CTA is a multinational, worldwide project to build a new generation of ground-based gamma-ray instrument in the energy range extending from some tens of GeV to about 300 TeV. It is proposed as an open observatory ...

, 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 * Cognitive Task Analysis * Computed tomography angiography * Conditioned taste aversion * Constant temperature anemometry * CTA, a codon for the amino acid Leucine

Other

* Call to action (marketing), a web design tenet that requires each page to clearly indicate the desired user response *

Call to action (political) Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to oth ...

, a call to activists to participate in a

direct action Direct action originated as a political activist term for economic and political acts in which the actors use their power (e.g. economic or physical) to directly reach certain goals of interest, in contrast to those actions that appeal to othe ...

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 (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ...

* Container Terminal Altenwerder *

Common Tasks for Assessment The Common Tasks for Assessment (or CTAs) are standardized tests that are part of a compulsory educational programme in South Africa. All Grade 9 Ninth grade, freshman year, or grade 9 is the ninth year of school education in some school systems ...

, an educational programme run by the Department of Education of South Africa * Common Travel Area, comprising Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands *

Control area Control area may refer to: * Control area (aviation) In aviation, a control area (CTA) is the volume of controlled airspace that exists in the vicinity of an airport. It has a specified lower level and a specified upper level. It usually is situat ...

, controlled airspace that exists in the vicinity of an airport * Copyright transfer agreement, used in publishing * Template:CTA {{Disambiguation