FPA may refer to:

Broadcasting and entertainment

* ''

Fancy Pants Adventures ''Fancy Pants'' 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 released on January ...

'', 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 He ...

, a Canadian adult film award *

Fundação Padre Anchieta Father Anchieta Foundation (Portuguese: ''Fundação Padre Anchieta'') is a Brazilian non-profit foundation of the state of São Paulo that develops educational radio and television programs. It was created by the government of the state of São ...

, a Brazilian educational media foundation * First-person adventure, an

adventure game 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 ...

played from a first-person perspective * "First-person adventure" as a phrase used by Nintendo to advertise the 2002 action-adventure game

Metroid Prime ''Metroid Prime'' is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. ''Metroid Prime'' is the fifth main '' Metroid'' game and the first to use 3D computer graphics and a first-person perspec ...

Education

* Florida Preparatory Academy, in Melbourne, Florida, United States

Foreign policy

Foreign policy analysis Foreign policy analysis (FPA) is a technique within the international relations sub-field of political science dealing with theory, development, and empirical study regarding the processes and outcomes of foreign policy. FPA is the study of the ...

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

Foreign Policy Association The Foreign Policy Association (FPA, formerly known as the League of Free Nations Association) is an American non-profit foreign policy organization. According to the FPA, the organization aims to spread global awareness and understanding of US f ...

, a US non-governmental organization

Government bodies

Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority A fertilizer or fertiliser is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients. Fertilizers may be distinct from liming materials or other non-nutrient soil amendments. Man ...

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

Kela (Finnish institution) Kela, abbr. from , (Fpa), (SII), is a Finnish government agency in charge of settling benefits under national social security programs. Kela was founded in 1937 to handle retirement pay. In the 1980s and 1990s, its role was expanded to handle ...

( - 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 orig ...

, 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 ...

, 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, in the United States *

Fire Protection Association The Fire Protection Association is the UK's National Fire Safety Organisation. Established in 1946, it specializes in spreading awareness about wildfire. It offers education and training, a fire risk assessment service, a nationwide risk mana ...

, 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 fibr ...

, a compound in

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

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 ph ...

, 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 ...

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 purpos ...

Focal-plane array (radio astronomy) Focal-plane arrays (FPAs) are widely used in radio astronomy. FPAs are arrays of Receiver (radio), receivers placed at the Focus (geometry), focus of the optical system in a radio-telescope. The optical system may be a Reflecting telescope, reflecto ...

Function point analysis The function point is a "unit of measurement" to express the amount of business functionality an information system (as a product) provides to a user. Function points are used to compute a functional size measurement (FSM) of software. The cost (in ...

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 Unite ...

, a form of motor racing *

Paraguayan Athletics Federation The Paraguayan Athletics Federation (FPA; ''Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Paraguay. It is located at the Secretaria Nacional de Deportes in Asunción, where it hosts its annual natio ...

(Spanish: ')

Other uses

Cairo Foreign Press Association The Cairo Foreign Press Association is an organization of journalists representing non-Egyptian media in Egypt, founded in January 1977. The FPA has hundreds of members, both Egyptians working for non-Egyptian media and non-Egyptians. The FPA was fo ...

, in Egypt *

Family Planning Association The Family Planning Association (FPA) was a UK registered charity 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 Federation in th ...

, a British sexual health charity *

The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK) is a Voluntary association, voluntary organization that promotes family planning in Hong Kong. The current executive director is Dr. Lam Wai-cheung, Mona. The headquarters of FPAHK is located i ...

* Flygprestanda, a Swedish aviation company * Fort Abbas railway station, 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