Academic degrees

• Master of Professional Accountancy
  Master of Accountancy
  Master of Accountancy , alternatively Master of Professional Accountancy or Master of Science in Accountancy , is a graduate professional degree designed to prepare students for public accounting and to provide them with the 150 credit hours required by most states before taking the...
  
  
• Master of Public Administration
  Master of Public Administration
  The Master of Public Administration is a professional post-graduate degree in Public Administration. The MPA program prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state/provincial, and federal/national government, and increasingly in nongovernmental organization and...
  
  
• Master of Public Affairs
  Master of Public Affairs
  The Master of Public Affairs , one of several public affairs degrees, historically has been a master level professional degree offered in public policy schools that provides training in public policy and the operation of government. Courses required for this degree educate students in public and...
  
  
• Master of Physician's Assistant

Chemicals

• Medroxyprogesterone
  Medroxyprogesterone
  Medroxyprogesterone is a pregnane that acts as a progestin. An acylated derivative, medroxyprogesterone 17-acetate is clinically used as a drug. Compared to MPA, MP is approximately 100 fold less potent as a progestin...
  
   acetate, also known by the brand name Depo-Provera
• Morpholide of pelargonic acid
  4-Nonanoylmorpholine
  4-Nonanoylmorpholine is an amide of pelargonic acid and morpholine.-Properties:...
  
  
• MPA N-methyl-1-(thiophen-2-yl)propan-2-amine

Legislation

• Marriage Protection Act
  Marriage Protection Act
  The Marriage Protection Act is a bill in the United States Congress to amend the federal judicial code to deny federal courts jurisdiction to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of the Defense of Marriage Act or the MPA...
  
  
• Marriage Protection Amendment
  Federal Marriage Amendment
  The Federal Marriage Amendment H.J. Res. 56 was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would have limited marriage in the United States to unions of one man and one woman...
  
  

Schools

• Morgan Park Academy
  Morgan Park Academy
  Morgan Park Academy is a coeducational, college preparatory, independent Pre-Kindergarten-12th grade day school located in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1863, Morgan Park Academy was formerly known as Mt...
  
  
• Mounds Park Academy
  Mounds Park Academy
  Mounds Park Academy, founded in 1982, is an independent, PreK-12, co-educational, college preparatory day school in Saint Paul, Minnesota serving students from throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The school is accredited by and is a member of the Independent Schools Association of the...
  
  
• Mount Pisgah Academy
  Mount Pisgah Academy
  Mount Pisgah Academy is a four year secondary education boarding school located in Candler, North Carolina, United States, near Asheville. The academy is named after the Mount Pisgah of biblical reference as well as its proximity to Mount Pisgah in the Blue Ridge Mountains.Affiliated with the...
  
  
• Mesa Preparatory Academy
  Mesa Preparatory Academy
  Mesa Preparatory Academy is a public charter high school in Mesa, Arizona. It is operated by Great Hearts Academies. It is an associate member of the Arizona Interscholastic Association for high school athletics and a member of the Charter Athletic Association for junior high and other sports....
  
  

Transportation

• Maritime patrol aircraft, like Nimrod, P-3 Orion
  P-3 Orion
  The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engine turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner. The aircraft is easily recognizable by its distinctive tail stinger or...
  
  
• Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
  Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
  The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore is a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of the Singapore Government.-History:The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore was established on 2 February 1996 by the MPA Act of...
  
  
• Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad
  Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad
  The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad , familiarly known as the "Ma and Pa", was an American short-line railroad between York and Hanover, Pennsylvania, formerly operating passenger and freight trains on its original line between York and Baltimore, Maryland, from 1901 until the 1950s...
  
  
• Mauritius Ports Authority
  Mauritius Ports Authority
  The Mauritius Ports Authority is a state corporation founded by the government of Mauritius in 1998 as the sole regulator and manager of ports and port services, in Mauritius, an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. Port Louis is the island group's most important port, and the city is the...
  
  
• Medical Psychological Assessment
  Medical Psychological Assessment
  The Medical Psychological Assessment is a German measure ruled by law for persons seeking to regain their driving licence.-History:The first standards mandating the MPA for certain prospective drivers were legally adopted in 1955...
  
  
• Mount Pleasant Airport
  RAF Mount Pleasant
  RAF Mount Pleasant is a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The facility is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands...
  
  , Falkland Islands
  Falkland Islands
  The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...
  
  
• Myanmar Port Authority
  Myanmar Port Authority
  The Myanma Port Authority is a government agency vested with the responsibility to regulate and administer the coastal ports of Myanmar. It is a department of the Ministry of Transport. The MPA was founded in 1989 and is located in Yangon.-History:...
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Macedonian Press Agency
  Macedonian Press Agency
  The Macedonian Press Agency was one of the two major news agencies in Greece, the other one being Athens News Agency, before they merged into the Athens News Agency-Macedonian Press Agency ....
  
  
• Maine Principals' Association
  Maine Principals' Association
  The Maine Principals’ Association is the governing body for sports competitions among all public and some private high schools in the state of Maine. It is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations...
  
  , governing body over high school athletics in the state of Maine
• Marine Protected Area
  Marine Protected Area
  Marine Protected Areas, like any protected area, are regions in which human activity has been placed under some restrictions in the interest of conserving the natural environment, it's surrounding waters and the occupant ecosystems, and any cultural or historical resources that may require...
  
  
• Mario Party Advance
  Mario Party Advance
  Mario Party Advance had generally mixed reviews. While the game contains a large number of minigames and unlockables, reviewers decried the game's tendency to punish players based on random chance, rebuked the game for lack of innovation in the minigames, and expressed concerns about the game's...
  
  , a video game
• Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded as Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split up into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics...
  
  
• Medical Products Agency
  Medical Products Agency
  The Medical Products Agency is the Swedish national authority responsible for regulation and surveillance of the development, manufacturing and sale of medicinal drugs, medical devices and cosmetics....
  
  , a Swedish governmental agency
• MeerKAT Precursor Array
  MeerKAT
  MeerKAT is a radio telescope under construction in the Northern Cape of South Africa. It will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the southern hemisphere until the Square Kilometer Array is completed around 2024.The telescope will be used for research into cosmic magnetism,...
  
  , a prototype for the MeerKAT radio telescope
  Radio telescope
  A radio telescope is a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy. The same types of antennas are also used in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes...
  
   in South Africa
• megapascal, a unit of pressure equal to 1000 kilopascals (kPa), commonly used in the building industry to measure crushing pressure of bricks
• Member of Provincial Assembly
  Member of Provincial Assembly
  A Member of Provincial Assembly or MPA is an elected representative to one of the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan, which are:*The Provincial Assembly of Balochistan*The Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
  
   (in Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
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• Metropolitan Police Authority
  Metropolitan Police Authority
  The Metropolitan Police Authority is the police authority responsible for supervising the Metropolitan Police Service, the police force for Greater London ....
  
  
• Microscopic polyangiitis
  Microscopic polyangiitis
  Microscopic polyangiitis is an ill-defined autoimmune disease characterized by pauci-immune, necrotizing, small-vessel vasculitis without clinical or pathological evidence of necrotizing granulomatous inflammation.-Presentation:Because many different organ systems may be involved, a wide range of...
  
  , a disease
• Mineral Products Association
  Mineral Products Association
  The Mineral Products Association is the United Kingdom trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, lime, mortar, and silica sand industries. With the addition of The British Precast Concrete Federation , it has a growing membership of 405 companies and is the sectoral voice...
  
  , UK quarrying and cement association
• Motion Picture Association
  Motion Picture Association
  The Motion Picture Association is the international counterpart of the Motion Picture Association of America.-History:The MPA starting out as the Motion Picture Association of America was started in 1922, as a trade organization for American Film industry...
  
  
• Movement Pattern Analysis
  Movement pattern analysis
  Movement Pattern Analysis is a comprehensive system for assessing an individual’s core motivations in decision-making processes, based on the disciplined analysis of nonverbal behaviour...
  
  
• MPA submachine gun
  MPA submachine gun
  The MPA submachine gun was the result of a 1977 project carried out by manufacturer Domingo Matheu to manufacture a reduced size submachine gun. It had a 100 mm tube next to the handle angled with respect to the axis of the weapon. The MPA project had as an objective the reduction of the recoil in...
  
  
• Music performance anxiety
• Music performance assessment
• Music Publishers' Association
  Music Publishers' Association
  The Music Publishers Association of the United States is a music publishing organization based in New York City. Founded in 1895, the MPA is the oldest music trade organization in the United States...
  
  
• Movement for Autonomies, a regional political party in Italy