Reference meaning
ATA
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Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)
Other meanings
2. suffix
Used to form formal plurals of certain Greek-derived words ending '-a', such as thema/themata, stigma/stigmata, schema/schemata.
3. proper noun
A Papuan language spoken on New Britain island, Papua New Guinea.
4. proper noun
A nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.
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