FPA may refer to:

Broadcasting and entertainment

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Fancy Pants Adventures ''The Fancy Pants Adventures'' is a series of free side-scrolling game, side-scrolling Flash games created by American developer Brad Borne. Four worlds have been released so far. ''World 1'' was released on March 14, 2006 and ''World 2'' was rele ...

'', an online game *

Feminist Porn Award The Feminist Porn Awards (FPAs) is an annual adult film awards ceremony that began in 2006, and was initially organized by the Good for Her adult store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Until 2014, the ceremony was officially known as the Good for H ...

, a Canadian adult film award *

First-person adventure An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based m ...

, a video game genre * Fundação Padre Anchieta, a Brazilian educational media foundation

Education

Florida Preparatory Academy Florida Prep (FPA) is a private boarding and day school founded in 1961 by Jonathan Dwight, located in Melbourne, Florida. Students in grades 6 -12 are provided a college-preparatory education that emphasizes leadership, character, accountability ...

, in Melbourne, Florida, United States

Foreign policy

Foreign policy analysis Foreign policy analysis (FPA) is a branch of political science dealing with theory development and empirical study regarding the processes and outcomes of foreign policy. FPA is the study of the management of external relations and activities of ...

* ''Foreign Policy Analysis'' (journal), a scholarly journal *

Foreign Policy Association The Foreign Policy Association (formerly known as the League of Free Nations Association) is a non-profit organization founded in 1918 dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. The Foreign Policy Association aims to ...

, a US non-governmental organization

Government bodies

Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority The Philippines' Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority ( fil, Pangasiwaan sa Pataba at Pestisidyo, abbreviated as FPA), is a technical regulatory agency under the Department of Agriculture. The agency is responsible for assuring adequate supply of ...

, in the Philippines * First Peoples' Assembly, Victoria, Australia * Fuerzas de Policia Armada, the former Spanish Armed Police *

Kela (Finnish institution) Kela, abbr. from fi, Kansaneläkelaitos, sv, Folkpensionsanstalten (Fpa), en, The Social Insurance Institution (SII), is a Finnish government agency in charge of settling benefits under national social security programs. Kela was founded in 193 ...

( sv, Folkpensionsanstalten - FPA), in Finland

Law

Federal Power Act The Federal Power Act is a law appearing in Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the United States Code, entitled "Federal Regulation and Development of Power". Enacted as the Federal Water Power Act on June 10, 1920, and amended many times since, its origina ...

, in the United States *

Flag Protection Act Reacting to protests during the Vietnam War era, the United States 90th Congress enacted Public Law 90-381 (82 Stat. 291), later codified as 18 U.S.C. 700, et. seq., and better known as the Flag Protection Act of 1968. It was an expansion to na ...

, in the United States *

Former Presidents Act The Former Presidents Act (known also as FPA; note (P.L. 85-745)) is a 1958 U.S. federal law that provides several lifetime benefits to former presidents of the United States who have not been removed from office solely pursuant to Article Two ...

, in the United States

Professional and trade organizations

Financial Planning Association Financial Planning Association (FPA) is the largest membership organization in the USA representing financial planners. Current membership is 22,000. FPA is primarily focused on supporting Certified Financial Planner The Certified Financial Plann ...

, in the United States *

Fire Protection Association The Fire Protection Association is the UK's National Fire Safety Organisation. Established in 1946, it works to identify and draw attention to the dangers of fire and the means by which their potential for occurrence and loss is kept to a min ...

, in the United Kingdom * Florida Philosophical Association, in the United States *

Food Products Association The Food Products Association (formerly the National Food Processors Association or NFPA) was the principal U.S. scientific and technical trade association representing the food processing industry until 2007. FPA was headquartered in Washington, ...

, in the United States

Science and technology

Fibrinopeptide A The fibrinopeptides, fibrinopeptide A (FpA) and fibrinopeptide B (FpB), are peptides which are located in the central region of the fibrous glycoprotein fibrinogen (factor I) and are cleaved by the enzyme thrombin (factor IIa) to convert fibri ...

, a compound in

coagulation Coagulation, also known as clotting, is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot. It potentially results in hemostasis, the cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel, followed by repair. The mechanis ...

Floating Point Accelerator Floating may refer to: * a type of dental work performed on horse teeth * use of an isolation tank * the guitar-playing technique where chords are sustained rather than scratched * ''Floating'' (play), by Hugh Hughes * Floating (psychological p ...

, a math coprocessor for early

ARM In human anatomy, the arm refers to the upper limb in common usage, although academically the term specifically means the upper arm between the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) and the elbow joint. The distal part of the upper limb between th ...

processors *

Flower pollination algorithm This is a chronologically ordered list of metaphor-based metaheuristics and swarm intelligence algorithms, sorted by decade of proposal. Algorithms 1980s-1990s Simulated annealing (Kirkpatrick et al., 1983) Simulated annealing is a pr ...

Focal-plane array A staring array, also known as staring-plane array or focal-plane array (FPA), is an image sensor consisting of an array (typically rectangular) of light-sensing pixels at the focal plane of a lens. FPAs are used most commonly for imaging purpo ...

Focal-plane array (radio astronomy) Focal-plane arrays (FPAs) are widely used in radio astronomy. FPAs are arrays of receivers placed at the focus of the optical system in a radio-telescope. The optical system may be a reflector or a lens. Traditional radio-telescopes have only on ...

* Function point analysis

Sport

Formula Palmer Audi Formula Palmer Audi, officially abbreviated to FPA, and sometimes informally abbreviated to Palmer Audi, was a one-make class of open wheel Formula racing founded in 1998 by former Formula One driver, Jonathan Palmer. It was based in the United ...

, a form of motor racing * Paraguayan Athletics Federation (Spanish: ')

Other uses

* Cairo Foreign Press Association, in Egypt *

Family Planning Association FPA (Family Planning Association) was a UK registered charity (number 250187) working to enable people to make informed choices about sex and to enjoy sexual health. It was the national affiliate for the International Planned Parenthood Federat ...

, a British sexual health charity *

The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK) is a voluntary organisation that promotes family planning in Hong Kong. The current Executive Director is Dr Lam Wai-cheung, Mona. The headquarters of FPAHK is located in , Wan Chai. History ...

* Flygprestanda, a Swedish aviation company *

Fort Abbas railway station Fort Abbas railway station ( ur, , pa, ) is located in Pakistan. See also * List of railway stations in Pakistan * Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways ( ur, ) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 a ...

, in Pakistan * Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960), American columnist and poet who used F.P.A. as a ''nom-de-plume'' * Facility Planning Area, sewer planning in the United States {{Disambiguation