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pa

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Noun

  1. Father, papa.
  2. Grandpa, grandfather.
  3. A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.
  4. Any Maori village or settlement; a kainga.
  5. Initialism of public address.
  6. Initialism of production assistant.
  7. Initialism of personal assistant.
  8. Initialism of personal appearance (when a celebrity visits a public event).
  9. Initialism of power amplifier.
  10. Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”).
  11. Initialism of public accountant.
  12. Initialism of public act.
  13. Initialism of physician assistant.
  14. Initialism of physician associate.
  15. Initialism of polyamide.
  16. Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
  17. Initialism of Peano arithmetic.
  18. Initialism of pulmonary artery.
  19. Initialism of Parental Accompaniment.
  20. Initialism of precision agriculture.
  21. Initialism of points against.
  22. Father, dad, papa.
  23. A short form of grandpa; grandfather.

Proper noun

  1. Abbreviation of Pennsylvania: a state of the United States.
  2. Abbreviation of Papua: a province of Indonesia.
  3. Abbreviation of Pará: a state of Brazil.
  4. Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
  5. Initialism of Proto-Algonquian (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc).
  6. Initialism of Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian).
  7. Initialism of Proto-Athabaskan.
  8. Initialism of Prince Albert: a city in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Adjective

  1. Initialism of posteroanterior.

Phrase

  1. Initialism of per annum.

Symbol

  1. Symbol for petaampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 10¹⁵ amperes.
  2. Chemical symbol for protactinium.
  3. pascal, a unit of pressure and of stress.
  4. Symbol for picoampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 10⁻¹² amperes.

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