TPS
TPS or Tps is an acronym that may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
- Télévision Par Satellite, a French satellite television company
- Third-person shooter, a genre of computer and video games
- Torsonic Polarity Syndrome, a fictional genetic birth defect in the show South Park
- Trailer Park Sex, a band from Hamburg-St.Pauli, Germany
- Transmission Parameters Signalling, part of the DVB-T standard for broadcasting digital television signals
- Turner Program Services, established in 1982 as the syndication arm of Turner Broadcasting System
In government and politics
- Temporary protected status, an immigration designation in the United States
- Toronto Police Service
- Telangana Praja Samithi, an Indian political party
In mathematics, science, and technology
In computing
- TPS report, Test Procedure Specification (IEEE 829), a document used in software engineering
- Transaction processing system, a type of information system
- Transactions per second, a concept in database management
- Transition path sampling, an approach in computer simulation to the problem of rare event sampling
In mathematics
- Theorem Proving System, an automated theorem proving system for first-order and higher-order logic
- Twin Prime Search, a distributed computing project that looks for large twin primes
- Thin plate spline, a mathematical tool for interpolating surfaces over scattered data
Other uses in science and technology
- Tetrapropylenebenzenesulfonate, a detergent phased out in favor of linear alkylbenzenesulfonates (LABs)
- Thermal protection system, a barrier that protects a spacecraft during atmospheric reentry
- Thermoplastic-sheathed cable
- Throttle position sensor, used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine
- tert-Butyldiphenylsilyl, a protecting group for alcohols
In sports
- HC TPS, an ice hockey team in the Finnish SM-liiga
- Turun Palloseura, Finnish football club
- Turun Palloseura (floorball), a floorball team in the Salibandyliiga
Other uses
- Telephone Preference Service, a UK telemarketing opt-out telephone list
- The Petersfield School, in southern England
- The Potter's School, an online home school
- Toyota Production System, organizes manufacturing and logistics at Toyota
- Trapani-Birgi Airport in Italy (IATA airport code)
- Tourism Promotion Services, also called Serena Hotels Group
- Turns per Second, used by the Speedcubing community to describe the number of full-face rotations of a Rubik's Cube or related puzzles per second.
See also
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