MPA or mPa may refer to:

Academia

Academic degrees

Master of Professional Accountancy The Master of Accountancy (MAcc, MAcy, or MAccy), alternatively Master of Science in Accounting (MSA or MSAcy) or Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcy, MPAcc or MPAc), is a graduate professional degree designed to prepare students for public ...

Master of Public Administration The Master of Public Administration (M.P.Adm., M.P.A., or MPA) is a specialized higher professional post graduate degree in public administration, similar/ equivalent to the Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the issues of ...

* Master of Public Affairs

Schools

Mesa Preparatory Academy Great Hearts Arete Prep (formerly Arete Preparatory Academy (formerly Mesa Preparatory Academy)) is a charter school in Mesa, Arizona. It is part of Great Hearts Academies. In 2014, the school moved to a location in Gilbert. The school changed i ...

Morgan Park Academy Morgan Park Academy (MPA) is a coeducational, college preparatory, independent day school serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade . It is located in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1873, Morg ...

Mounds Park Academy Mounds Park Academy (MPA), founded in 1982, is an independent, PreK-12, co-educational, college preparatory day school in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States, serving students from throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. The sch ...

Mount Pisgah Academy Mount Pisgah Academy is a four-year secondary education boarding and day school located in Candler, North Carolina, United States, near Asheville, North Carolina, Asheville. The academy is named after the Mount Pisgah (Bible), Mount Pisgah of bib ...

Science and medicine

Megapascal The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI), and is also used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus, and ultimate tensile strength. The unit, named after Blaise Pascal, is defined as ...

, SI unit of pressure *

Marine protected area Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes. These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities. MPAs restrict human activity for a conserv ...

* MeerKAT Precursor Array for the

MeerKAT MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilom ...

radio telescope in South Africa * Microscopic polyangiitis, a disease *

Minor physical anomalies Minor physical anomalies (MPAs) are relatively minor (typically painless and, in themselves, harmless) congenital physical abnormalities consisting of features such as low-set ears, single transverse palmar crease, telecanthus, micrognathism, ma ...

Movement pattern analysis Movement pattern analysis (MPA) is a system for assessing an individual's motivations in decision-making processes, based on the analysis of nonverbal behaviour. MPA applications include management consulting and career guidance, and over 30,000 in ...

, for assessing motivations

Chemicals

Medroxyprogesterone acetate Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), also known as depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) in injectable form and sold under the brand name Depo-Provera among others, is a hormonal medication of the progestin type. It is used as a method of bi ...

3-Mercaptopropionic acid 3-Mercaptopropionic acid (3-MPA) is an organosulfur compound with the formula HSCH2CH2CO2H. It is a bifunctional molecule, containing both carboxylic acid and thiol groups. It is a colorless oil. It is derived from the addition of hydrogen sulf ...

Methiopropamine Methiopropamine (MPA) is a thiophene ring-based structural analog of methamphetamine originally reported in 1942. Chemically it is not a phenethylamine or amphetamine and is not their functional analog either. It originally appeared for public ...

, (N-methyl-1-(thiophen-2-yl)propan-2-amine) * Methylphosphonic acid * Mycophenolic acid, an immunosuppressant drug *

4-Nonanoylmorpholine 4-Nonanoylmorpholine ''pelargonic acid morpholide, N-nonanoylmorpholine, MPK or МПК (for russian: морфолид пеларгоновой кислоты), or MPAis an amide of pelargonic acid and morpholine. Properties 4-Nonanoylmorpholine ...

or morpholide pelargonic acid

Legislation

Marriage Protection Act The Marriage Protection Act of 2004 (MPA) was a bill introduced in the United States Congress in 2003 to amend the federal judicial code to deny federal courts jurisdiction to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of the Def ...

, 2003–2004 US federal bill

Organizations and companies

* Macedonian Press Agency, Greece * Maine Principals' Association, governing school sports, Maine, US * Manipur People's Army, India * Manufacturing Perfumers' Association, the original name of the Personal Care Products Council from 1894 to 1922 *

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is a research institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of many scientific research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society. The MPA is widely conside ...

, near Munich, Germany * Medical Products Agency (Sweden) * Metropolitan Police Authority, London, UK (2000–2012) * Mineral Products Association, UK *

Motion Picture Association The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as well as the video streaming service Netflix. Founded in 1922 as the Motion Picture Producers and Distribu ...

, US * Movement for the Autonomies, Sicily, Italy *

MPA – the Association of Magazine Media MPA – The Association of Magazine Media is a nonprofit trade association for the magazine media industry. MPA was formerly known as Magazine Publishers Association until 2010. MPA is the industry trade association for multi-platform magazine med ...

, US *

Music Publishers Association The Music Publishers Association of the United States (MPA) is a non-profit music publishing organization based in New York City. Founded in 1895, the MPA is the oldest music trade organization in the United States which addresses issues pertain ...

, US *

Music Publishers Association (UK) The Music Publishers Association (MPA) is a non-profit organisation representing music publishers in the United Kingdom since 1881. It "exists to safeguard and promote the interests of music publishers and the writers signed to them; represent ...

Transportation

Maritime patrol aircraft A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), also known as a patrol aircraft, maritime reconnaissance aircraft, or by the older American term patrol bomber, is a fixed-wing aircraft designed to operate for long durations over water in maritime patrol roles ...

* Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore * Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, US *

Maryland Port Administration The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is an organization comprising five business units and one Authority: * Maryland Transportation Authority (Transportation Secretary serves as chairman of the Maryland Transportation Authority) * M ...

, US *

Mauritius Ports Authority The Mauritius Ports Authority (MPA) is a parastatal organisation in Mauritius, it is the sole regulator and manager of the port and its services. Functions Formerly known as the Mauritius Marine Authority (MMA), the MPA is the sole national po ...

* Mount Pleasant Airport, Falkland Islands * Myanma Port Authority, Myanmar

Other uses

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Mario Party Advance is a party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. Released in 2005, it is the first handheld game in the Mario Party, ''Mario Party'' series, and differs from other titles in that the game is most ...

'', a 2005 video game *

Member of the Provincial Assembly A Member of the Provincial Assembly, or MPA is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the legislature or legislative assembly of a subnational jurisdiction. In Pakistan, the members are elected by the voters in provin ...

, Pakistan *

MPA submachine gun The Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially abbreviated as "M10" or "M-10", and more commonly known as the MAC-10, is a compact, blowback operated machine pistol/submachine gun that was developed by Gordon B. Ingram in 1964. It is ...

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