TPA may refer to:

Business and finance

Third-party access Third party access policies require owners of natural monopoly infrastructure facilities to grant access to those facilities to parties other than their own customers, usually competitors in the provision of the relevant services, on commercial ter ...

, a competition principle regarding natural resources *

Third-party administrator In the United States, a third-party administrator (TPA) is an organization that processes insurance claims or certain aspects of employee benefit plans for a separate entity. It is also a term used to define organizations within the insurance indu ...

for processing insurance claims *

Tonne The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton ( United State ...

s per annum * Tons per acre, wine grape production term for estimating yield

Law

Trade Practices Act 1974 The ''Competition and Consumer Act 2010'' (CCA) is an Act of parliament, Act of the Parliament of Australia. Prior to 1 January 2011, it was known as the ''Trade Practices Act 1974'' (TPA). The Act is the legislative vehicle for competition la ...

, Australian competition law legislation *

Trade Promotion Authority The fast track authority for brokering trade agreements is the authority of the President of the United States to negotiate international agreements in an expedited manner and with limited congressional oversight. Renamed the trade promotion a ...

, a power of the US president

Organisations

* Political Union of Economists ( lv, Tautsaimnieku Politiskā Apvienība), former Latvian political party *

TaxPayers' Alliance The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) is a pressure group in the United Kingdom which was formed in 2004 to campaign for a low-tax society. The group had about 18,000 registered supporters as of 2008 and claimed to have 55,000 by September 2010. However ...

, a British free-market lobby group *

Tempe Preparatory Academy Tempe Preparatory Academy is a public charter school in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States. Founded in 1996, Tempe Preparatory Academy (also known as Tempe Prep or TPA) offers a Great Books, core liberal arts curriculum ce ...

, a preparatory secondary school in Arizona, U.S. * Texas Pharmacy Association, U.S. *

Theta Phi Alpha Theta Phi Alpha (), commonly known as Theta Phi, is a women's fraternity founded at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor on August 30, 1912. The main archive URL iThe Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage Theta Phi Alpha is one of 26 nation ...

a collegiate women's fraternity. Formerly known as TPA, now Theta Phi Alpha. *

Toronto Paramedic Association The Toronto Paramedic Association (TPA) was founded in 1992 to be a glee club and represent the interests of paramedics employed by Toronto Paramedic Services (TPS). During initial stages of development, membership consisted largely of Advanced C ...

, Canada * Travelers Protective Association

Science and medicine

Terephthalic acid Terephthalic acid is an organic compound with formula C6H4(CO2H)2. This white solid is a commodity chemical, used principally as a precursor to the polyester PET, used to make clothing and plastic bottles. Several million tonnes are produced annua ...

, an aromatic acid and monomer for Aramid * Tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate (12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate), a tumor promoter drug *

Tissue plasminogen activator Tissue plasminogen activator (abbreviated tPA or PLAT) is a protein involved in the breakdown of blood clots. It is a serine protease () found on endothelial cells, the cells that line the blood vessels. As an enzyme, it catalyzes the conversion ...

(tPA), a fibrinolytic enzyme in biochemistry and medicine *

Transpalatal arch A lingual arch is an orthodontic device which connects two molars in the upper or lower dental arch. The lower lingual arch (LLA) has an archwire adapted to the lingual side of the lower teeth. In the upper arch the archwire is usually connecting ...

, an orthodontic device *

Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (abbreviated TPMA or TPA) is an organic compound with the formula (C5H4NCH2)3N. It is a tertiary amine with three picolyl substituents. It is a white solid that is soluble in polar organic solvents. It is a ligand in ...

Two-photon absorption Two-photon absorption (TPA or 2PA) or two-photon excitation or non-linear absorption is the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical or different frequencies in order to excite a molecule from one state (usually the ground state) to a hi ...

Television

Televisão Pública de Angola Televisão Pública de Angola E.P. (Public Television of Angola) or TPA is the national broadcaster of the Southern African state of Angola. It also operates an international channel TPAi (formerly known as TPA Internacional and TPA3). TPA is h ...

, the state-owned TV station in Angola * Televisión Pública Argentina, a television network in Argentina *

Television Programs of America Television Programs of America, Inc (TPA) was a New York-based US television production company in the 1950s. TPA had a Canadian subsidiary, Normandie Productions. This television production and distribution company was best known for '' Fury, ...

, a television production company of the 1950s *

Televisión del Principado de Asturias Televisión del Principado de Asturias ( Asturian: ''Televisión del Principáu d'Asturies'', English: ''Television of the Principality of Asturias'') is the first channel from RTPA, in Asturias. The channel broadcasts entirely in Asturias and its ...

, broadcaster in Asturias, Spain

Transport

Tampa International Airport Tampa International Airport is an international airport west of Downtown Tampa, in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned by Hillsborough County Aviation Authority (HCAA)., effective December 30, 2021. T ...

, by IATA code *

Tanzania Ports Authority Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) is a parastatal public corporation acting under the aegis of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development, that has the responsibility "to manage and operate" the ocean ports and lake ports of the country of Tanzan ...

Toronto Parking Authority The Toronto Parking Authority (TPA), commonly known as Green P for its green-colour branding, is a municipal parking services company owned by the Municipal government of Toronto, City of Toronto. The TPA was established in 1998 with the merger of ...

, Canada *

Toronto Port Authority The Toronto Port Authority (TPA), doing business as PortsToronto (PT), is a port authority that is responsible for the management of the Port of Toronto, including the International Marine Passenger Terminal, and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport ...

, Canada

Other

Taipei Assassins J Team is a Taiwanese professional esports organization owned by JY Entertainment with players competing in ''League of Legends'' and ''StarCraft II''. Its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the Pacific Championship Series, the highest le ...

, a Taiwanese esports team *

Terapascal 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 ...

(TPa), a unit of pressure or stiffness *

The Pinball Arcade ''The Pinball Arcade'' is a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios. The game is a simulated collection of real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb, Alvin G. and Company, and Stern Pinball, a company which also owns the rights of machines ...

, a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios *

Thermal Protective Aid A Thermal Protective Aid (TPA) is an aluminized polyethylene suit with heat sealed seams that protects from the elements and prevents hypothermia. It is defined by the International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code as follows: Every survival cra ...

, an aluminized polyethylene suit *

Thickened pyrophoric agent Triethylaluminium is one of the simplest examples of an Organoaluminium chemistry, organoaluminium compound. Despite its name it has the Chemical formula, formula aluminum, Al2(Ethyl group, C2H5)6 (abbreviated as Al2Et6 or TEA), as it exists as a D ...

, triethylaluminium used as an incendiary weapon * Third-party authentication, term usually applied to an app which enables a type of

multi-factor authentication Multi-factor authentication (MFA; encompassing two-factor authentication, or 2FA, along with similar terms) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting ...

* TPA Tour, name for the US golf PGA Tour for a few months in 1981-2 * ''Trade Practices Act 1974'', the predecessor to the ''

Competition and Consumer Act 2010 The ''Competition and Consumer Act 2010'' (CCA) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia. Prior to 1 January 2011, it was known as the ''Trade Practices Act 1974'' (TPA). The Act is the legislative vehicle for competition law in Australia, an ...

'', Australian legislation *

Transient program area CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...

, in a CP/M computer system