Encyclopedia : P : PL : PLA
The acronym PLA may mean:
- People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China, the world's largest military.
- Palestine Liberation Army
- Phone Losers of America, the computer and telephone hacking group
- Port of London Authority
- Prior Learning Assessment in the field of education and articulation.
- Programmable Logic Array
- Product licensing application, an application to the Food and Drug Administration to get approval of a biologic product
- Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association
- PLA, an underground rap group from New Zealand now known as the MLA.
- PLA is also a surname from the Catalan region of Spain
- PLA also stands for Project Labor Agreement
- Polylactic acid -- a polymer made from natural sugar sources, which can be used as a substitute for petroleum-based polymers
Other meanings
PLA may also mean:- polylactic acid or polyactide, a polymer
- The Playboy Enterprises stock symbol
- An opcode on the MOS Technologies 6502 to pull the accumulator from the stack
- surgeons' jargon for a pelvic lymphadenectomy, a procedure in which lymph nodes are removed
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