TPS or Tps may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

* Télévision Par Satellite, a French satellite television company *

Third-person shooter Third-person shooter (TPS) is a subgenre of 3D shooter games in which the gameplay consists primarily of shooting. It is closely related to first-person shooters, but with the player character visible on-screen during play. While 2D shoot 'em ...

, a game genre *

Torsonic Polarity Syndrome Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance. They may be fictional psychological disorders, magical, from mythological or fantasy settings, have evolved naturally, bee ...

, in ''South Park'' animation * Trailer Park Sex, a band from Hamburg-St.Pauli, Germany *Transmission Parameters Signalling, in

DVB-T DVB-T, short for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in Singapore in Febr ...

digital TV standard *

Turner Program Services Turner Program Services was the former syndication arm of Turner Broadcasting. It served the same purpose as Turner Entertainment's distribution unit, with the exception that TPS was more involved in distributing television series rather than fil ...

, TV syndication

In government and politics

Temporary protected status Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a temporary status given by the United States government to eligible nationals of designated countries, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, who are present in the United States. In general, the ...

, a non-immigration designation in the United States * Toronto Police Service * Toronto Paramedic Services * Telangana Praja Samithi, an Indian political party *

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test flight officer, navigators to carry out tests and evaluations of new ...

, Edwards AFB, California

In mathematics, science, and technology

In computing

* TPS report, Test Procedure Specification, in quality assurance *

Transaction processing system Transaction processing is a way of computing that divides work into individual, indivisible operations, called transactions. A transaction processing system (TPS) is a software system, or software/ hardware combination, that supports transaction ...

Transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term transactions per second (TPS) refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restricted view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the num ...

, usually in database management or digital currencies *

Transition path sampling Transition path sampling (TPS) is a Rare Event Sampling method used in computer simulations of rare events: physical or chemical transitions of a system from one stable state to another that occur too rarely to be observed on a computer timescale. ...

, in rare event sampling

In mathematics

* Theorem Proving System, Carnegie Mellon University system * Twin Prime Search, computing project seeking large twin primes * Thin plate spline, interpolation technique

Other uses in science and technology

* Thermal protection system for spacecraft re-entry *

Thermoplastic-sheathed cable A thermoplastic-sheathed cable (TPS) consists of a toughened outer sheath of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) thermoplastic, covering one or more individual annealed copper conductors, themselves insulated with PVC. This type of wiring is commonly used ...

Throttle position sensor A throttle position sensor (TPS) is a sensor used to monitor the air intake of an engine. The sensor is usually located on the butterfly spindle/shaft, so that it can directly monitor the position of the throttle. More advanced forms of the senso ...

, in an internal combustion engine *True

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...

seed, as distinct from a seed tuber * Transit signal priority for mass transit vehicles at traffic lights

In sports

The Players Series The Players Series, titled as the Webex Players Series for sponsorship reasons, is a series of professional golf tournaments played in Australia with men and women competing in the same field, although they play from different tees. The series beg ...

, a series of professional golf tournaments in Australia Entities and former teams of the sports club Turun Palloseura, based in Turku, Finland: * HC TPS, an ice hockey team in the Finnish Liiga *

TPS Naiset Turun Palloseura Naiset or TPS Naiset are an ice hockey team in the Finnish Naisten Liiga (ice hockey), Naisten Liiga. They are the representative women's ice hockey team of Turun Palloseura (TPS), a multi-sport club based in Turku, Southwest F ...

, a women’s ice hockey team in the Finnish Naisten Liiga * Turun Palloseura, Finnish association football club *

Turun Palloseura (floorball) Turun Palloseura (TPS) is one of the oldest sports clubs in Finland. It was founded in 1922 and floorball department was founded in 1995. The floorball department has over 850 members and it is the third largest floorball club in Finland. Men's t ...

, a floorball team in the Finnish Salibandyliiga

Other uses

* Telephone Preference Service, a UK telemarketing opt-out telephone list *

Tenants Purchase Scheme Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) is a scheme which allows tenants in public housing estates under the Hong Kong Housing Authority to purchase their flats. The price is set to be much lower than the market prices of private flats and Home Ownersh ...

, a public housing scheme in Hong Kong *

The Petersfield School The Petersfield School (TPS) is located in Petersfield, Hampshire, in southern England. The school opened on 20 June 1958 and remains the only state-funded secondary school in Petersfield. It received Arts College status in September 2004, and ...

, in southern England *

Toyota Production System The Toyota Production System (TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices. The TPS is a management system that organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile ma ...

, organizes manufacturing and logistics * Trapani-Birgi Airport in Italy (IATA airport code) *

Tourism Promotion Services Serena Hotels is a hospitality company which operates Five star hotel, up-scale hotels and resorts in East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia. Serena comprises a collection of 36 luxury resorts, safari lodges, and hotels, which are located in ...

, trading name of Serena Hotels Group * Turns per Second, speedcubing term