Pla

The acronym PLA may mean:Pre-school learning alliance, a charitable organisation formed by a number of playschools/groups in the UKParticipatory Learning and Action, an approach used in international development People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.Palestine Liberation ArmyPhone Losers of America, the computer and telephone hacking group Port of London AuthorityPrior Learning Assessment in the field of education and articulation.Programmable Logic ArrayProduct 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 AssociationPolylactic acid, a biopolymer made from natural sugar sources, which can be used as a substitute for petroleum-based polymersPLA is also a surname from the Catalan region of SpainPLA also stands for Project Labor AgreementAn early name of the Irish National Liberation Army.
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PLA, Palestine Liberation Army, military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (organization that seeks Palestinian independence from Israeli rule)

Abbreviation for programmable logic array.

An array of gates having interconnections that can be programmed to perform a specific logical function.

<language, music> A high-level music programming language, written in SAIL. Pla includes concurrency based on message passing.
["Pla: A Composer's Idea of a Language", B. Schottstaedt, Computer Music J 7(1):11-20, Winter 1983].
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