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TPS may refer to:

• Space Shuttle thermal protection system, the barrier that protects the space shuttle from the heat of atmospheric reentry
• Tall poppy syndrome, used in Australia and New Zealand to describe what is seen as a levelling social attitude
• Target Plaza South
• Telephone Preference Service, a UK opt-out telephone list that is intended to prevent telemarketing calls to those who do not wish to receive them
• Télévision Par Satellite, a French company that offered subscription television packages via satellite
• Temporary protected status, an immigration designation in the United States, allowing a temporary freeze on deportations
• The Planetary Society, a space advocacy organization
• Theorem Proving System, an automated theorem proving system for first-order and higher-order logic
• Thermal Protection System, used on the Space Shuttle
• Thermo Plastic Sheath (TPS), cabling
• Thin plate spline, a mathematical tool for interpolating surfaces over scattered data
• Third-person shooter, a genre of 3D computer and video games in which the onscreen character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible angles
• Threat per second, a measurement in MMORPGs that gauges the threat generated (or aggro) of a character against creatures
• Throttle position sensor, used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine
• Toronto Police Service, formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is the police force for the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Torsonic Polarity Syndrome, a fictional condition seen in the South Park episode How to Eat with Your Butt
• Toyota Production System, the philosophy which organizes manufacturing and logistics at Toyota
• TPS (ice hockey), an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga
• TPS report, Test Procedure Specification (IEEE 829), a document used in software engineering
• Transaction Processing System, a type of information system
• Transactions Per Second, the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second
• Transmission Parameters Signalling in DVB-T
• Trapani-Birgi Airport, IATA airport code
• Turner Program Services, established in 1982 as the syndication arm of Turner Broadcasting System
• Turun Palloseura (floorball), a floorball team in the Salibandyliiga
• Turun Palloseura, Finnish football
• Twin Prime Search, a distributed computing project that looks for large twin primes
• The ice hockey division of Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of the famous Louisville Slugger baseball bats.

Schools

• Tacoma Public Schools
• Tulsa Public Schools
• Test Pilot School (disambiguation)
• Trinity Preparatory School, east of Winter Park, Florida
• The Pennington School
• The Petersfield School
• Toowoomba Preparatory School, located near the Toowoomba range escarpment

• Disambiguation pages