List of Acronyms and Initialisms: P - PA

PA

  • pa – (s) Punjabi language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • pA – (s) picoampere
  • Pa
    • (s) pascal
    • Protactinium
  • PA
    • (a/i) Pamela Anderson
    • (s) Panama (ISO 3166 digram)
    • Paraguay (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • (i) Partial Agonist
    • (s) Pennsylvania (postal symbol)
    • petampere
    • (i) PolyAmide (Nylon)
    • Prince Albert piercing
    • Public Address (vocal amplification system)
    • Public Affairs
  • PA 6 – (s) Nylon 6 (PolyAmide) (similarly for PA 11, 12, 46, 66, 610)
  • PAA – (i) Position Area for Artillery
  • PAB – (s) Panamanian balboa (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • PABX – (p) Private Automated Branch eXchange (company phone system)
  • PAC
    • (i) Pan Africanist Congress
    • (a) Partial Solar Calibrator
    • Patriot Advanced Capabilities
    • Political action committee
    • (a/i) Primary Auditory Cortex
  • PACOM – (p) (U.S.) Pacific Command
  • PADI – (a) Professional Association of Diving Instructors
  • PAEK – (i) PolyArylEtherKetone
  • PAFC – (i) Plymouth Argyle Football Club
  • PAH – (i) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
  • PAHO – (i) Pan American Health Organization
  • PAI
    • (i) PolyAmide Imide
    • Pre-Approval Inspection (pharma)
  • PAK – (s) Pakistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • Pakistan – (p) Punjab, Afghan states, Kashmir, sIndh, baluchiSTAN
  • PAL
    • (a) Phase Alternating Line (TV standard)
    • (p) Philippine Airlines
  • PAM – (a/i) Precision Attack Missile
  • Pamida – (p) Patrick, Michael, and David, sons of the department store chain's co-founder Jim Witherspoon
  • PAMELA
    • (a) Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics
    • (a) Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
  • pan – (s) Punjabi language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • PAN
    • (s) Panama (ISO 3166 trigram)
    • (a) Personal Area Network
    • (i) PolyAcryloNitrile
  • PANS – (a) Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS)
  • Pan-STARRS – (p) Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System
  • PAO – (i) Public Affairs Officer
  • PAPI – (a) Precision Approach Path Indicator (aviation)
  • PAR – (s) Paraguay (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • PARC – (a) Palo Alto Research Center
  • PAROS – (a) Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (treaty)
  • PARP – (i) (NATO Partnership for Peace) Planning And Review Process
  • PARWIG – (a) Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
  • PAS – See entry
  • PASA – (i) PolyAmide, Semi-Aromatic (Nylon)
  • PASGT – (i) Personnel Armor System, Ground Troops
  • PASR – (i) Personnel Accounting and Strength Reporting
  • PATH – (a) Port Authority Trans-Hudson
  • PAWS
    • (a) Phased Array Warning System
    • Progressive Animal Welfare Society
  • PAYD – (a) Pay As You Drive
  • PAYE – (a) Pay As You Earn

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