PLA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pla"

English

Proper noun

PLA

1. (business) Initialism of Port of London Authority.
2. (military) Initialism of People's Liberation Army.

   Coordinate terms: PLAN, PLAAF, PLAGF

   1. The national armed forces of the People's Republic of China.

      Hyponyms: PLAN, PLAAF, PLAGF

   2. Clipping of PLAGF. The national army of the People’s Republic of China.

      Coordinate terms: PLAN, PLAAF

   • 1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 159:

     Thus, despite the downfall of the conservative military leadership of Wuhan as a consequence of the center’s suppression of the Wuhan Mutiny, subsequent developments indicate an increased reliance on the institution least desirous of continued Cultural Revolution disruption—the PLA.

   • 2022 May 12, Minnie Chan, “Satellite images ‘suggest China is practising missile strikes on targets in Taiwan and Guam’”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 May 2022:

     Suao is a strategic port designed to keep Taiwan’s access to maritime supply chains open in times of war, so Koh said it would also be priority targets of the PLA missiles.

3. (historical, politics) Initialism of Palestine Liberation Army (“a traditional army of the Palestine Liberation Organization, no longer extant”).
4. (historical, trading) NYSE stock-ticker symbol for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., now PLBY.
5. (fandom slang, video games) Initialism of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Noun

PLA (plural PLAs)

1. (electronics, countable) Initialism of programmable logic array.

   Coordinate term: PAL

2. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polylactic acid.
   • 2016. Wang Y, Qu W, Choi SH. "FDA;s Regulatory Science Program for Generic PLA/PLGA-Based Drug Products", American Pharmaceutical Review, 19(4):14.

     There are currently 15 FDA-approved PLA/PLGA-based drug products available on the US market (Table 1).

3. (aviation) Initialism of power lever angle (“angle of the pilot's primary control lever”).
4. (software engineering) Initialism of principle of least astonishment.

See also

• (electronics): PIC, FPGA

Anagrams

• ALP, APL, LPA, PAL, Pal, alp, lap, pal