RPA

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Proper noun

RPA

1. Initialism of Rural Payments Agency.

Noun

RPA (countable and uncountable, plural RPAs)

1. Initialism of remotely piloted aircraft.
2. Initialism of robotic process automation.
3. (physics) Initialism of random phase approximation.
   • 2016 April 26, Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang, “Using Wannier functions to improve solid band gap predictions in density functional theory”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, article 24924, page 1:

     An even higher-level method is the GW and the related random-phase approximation (RPA)^8,9, but the high computational cost of RPA makes it only applicable to small systems¹⁰.

Hypernyms

remotely piloted aircraft

• UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)

 

Coordinate terms

remotely piloted aircraft

• cruise missile
• drone
• model airplane
• RC (remote control)
• UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle)

 

Related terms

remotely piloted aircraft

• OPA (optionally piloted aircraft)
• ROV (remotely operated vehicle)

 

Etymology 2

From French RPA.

Noun

RPA (plural RPAs)

1. (Quebec) Privately-operated retirement home

Further reading

• RPA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• APR, ARP, Apr, Apr., Arp, PAR, PRA, Par, RAP, Rap, apr, arp, par, rap

French

Noun

RPA f (plural RPAs)

1. RPA (“private/commercial old-folks residence”); Initialism of résidence privée pour aînés.

Descendants

• English: RPA

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛr.pɛˈa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Syllabification: R‧P‧A

Noun

RPA f

1. Abbreviation of Republika Południowej Afryki.

Further reading

• RPA in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• RPA in Polish dictionaries at PWN