pa
IPA: pˈɑ
noun
- (colloquial) Father, papa.
- (colloquial) Grandpa, grandfather.
- (New Zealand, now historical) A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.
- (New Zealand) Any Maori village or settlement; a kainga.
- (informal, in direct address) Father, dad, papa.
- A short form of grandpa; grandfather.
- Abbreviation of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America. [A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.]
- Abbreviation of Papua, a province of Indonesia. [The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.]
- Abbreviation of Pará, a state of Brazil. [A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Belém]
- Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algonquian. (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc) [(linguistics) The theoretical proto-language of the Algonquian languages.]
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algic. (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian) [(linguistics) The theoretical, second-level proto-language of the Algic languages, spoken about 7000 years ago: the ancestor of Proto-Algonquian, Yurok, and Wiyot.]
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Athapaskan.
- Initialism of Prince Albert (“Saskatchewan city”). [A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.]
- Initialism of public address.
- Initialism of personal assistant. [Someone whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks.]
- Initialism of personal appearance. (when a celebrity visits a public event)
- Initialism of power amplifier.
- Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”). [A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.]
- Initialism of public accountant.
- (law) Initialism of public act.
- (medicine) Initialism of physician assistant. [(capitalized when used as a person's title) A health care professional trained and licensed to perform a role similar to that of a physician but with somewhat narrower limits of authority; physician assistants and nurse practitioners have enough capabilities to be physician extenders, providing primary care and allowing physicians to spread their time across more patients.]
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyamide. [(organic chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.]
- (chemistry) Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
- Initialism of Peano arithmetic. [(logic) A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, addition and multiplication, including a first-order schema of induction.]
- (anatomy) Initialism of pulmonary artery. [(anatomy) The artery that connects the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.]
- (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) Initialism of Parental Accompaniment. [(Manitoba) A former film classification advising that viewers under 15 years of age be accompanied by a parent or guardian.]
- Initialism of precision agriculture. [A style of agricultural management based on observing, measuring and responding to inter- and intra-field variability in crops.]
- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.
adjective
- (medicine) Initialism of posteroanterior. [(anatomy) Posterior to anterior; back-to-front.]
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