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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

  v t e Rubik's Cube
  Puzzle inventors	Ernő Rubik Larry Nichols Uwe Mèffert Tony Fisher Panagiotis Verdes Oskar van Deventer
  Rubik's Cubes	Overview Rubik's family cubes of all sizes 2×2×2 (Pocket Cube) 3×3×3 (Rubik's Cube) 4×4×4 (Rubik's Revenge) 5×5×5 (Professor's Cube) 6×6×6 (V-Cube 6) 7×7×7 (V-Cube 7) 8×8×8 (V-Cube 8)
  Variations of the Rubik's Cube	Bump Cube Nine-Colour Cube Sudoku Cube
  Other cubic combination puzzles	Helicopter Cube Skewb Dino Cube Square 1 Gear Cube
  Non-cubic combination puzzles	Tetrahedron Pyraminx Pyraminx Duo Pyramorphix BrainTwist Octahedron Skewb Diamond Dodecahedron Megaminx Pyraminx Crystal Skewb Ultimate Icosahedron Impossiball Dogic Great dodecahedron Alexander's Star Truncated icosahedron Tuttminx Cuboid Rubik's Domino (2x3x3)
  Virtual combination puzzles (>3D)	MagicCube4D MagicCube5D MagicCube7D Magic 120-cell
  Derivatives	Missing Link Rubik's 360 Rubik's Clock Rubik's Magic Master Edition Rubik's Revolution Rubik's Snake Rubik's Triamid
  Renowned solvers	Yu Nakajima Édouard Chambon Bob Burton, Jr. Jessica Fridrich Chris Hardwick Kevin Hays Rowe Hessler Leyan Lo Shotaro Makisumi Toby Mao Prithveesh K. Bhat Krishnam Raju Gadiraju Tyson Mao Frank Morris Lars Petrus Gilles Roux David Singmaster Ron van Bruchem Eric Limeback Anthony Michael Brooks Mats Valk Feliks Zemdegs Collin Burns Max Park Mátyás Kuti Yiheng Wang
  Solutions	Speedsolving Speedcubing Methods Layer by Layer CFOP method Optimal
  Mathematics	God's algorithm Superflip Thistlethwaite's algorithm Rubik's Cube group
  Official organization	World Cube Association
  Related articles	Rubik's Cube in popular culture Rubik, the Amazing Cube The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube 1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship

  or related puzzles.

  See also

  • TP (disambiguation)
  Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TPS.
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• Disambiguation pages
• Three-letter disambiguation pages