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TPS or Tps is an acronym that may refer to:

Mathematics, science, and engineering

• Theorem Proving System, an automated theorem proving system for first-order and higher-order logic
• Transition path sampling, an approach in Computer Simulation to the problem of Rare Event Sampling
• 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
• Thermal protection system or the Space Shuttle thermal protection system, the barrier that protects a spacecraft from the heat of atmospheric reentry
• Thermoplastic-sheathed cable
• The Planetary Society, a space advocacy organization
• Throttle position sensor, used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine
• Treatment planning system, a computer-based system for radiation therapy planning

Computers

• 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
• The Print Shop, a basic desktop publishing software package developed in the early 1980s
• 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
• Threat per second, a measurement in some MMORPG online computer-games
• Tweets per second

Sports

• HC TPS, an ice hockey team in the Finnish SM-liiga
• Turun Palloseura (floorball), a floorball team in the Salibandyliiga
• Turun Palloseura, Finnish football club

Television and media

• Turner Program Services, established in 1982 as the syndication arm of Turner Broadcasting System
• Télévision Par Satellite, a French company that offered subscription television packages via satellite
• Transmission Parameters Signalling, part of the DVB-T standard for broadcasting digital television signals
• Torsonic Polarity Syndrome, a fictional genetic birth defect in the show South Park

Schools

• Tilak Public School, Jaipur, India
• The Peninsula School
• Tacoma Public Schools
• Tulsa Public Schools
• Test pilot school - see List of test pilot schools
• Trinity Preparatory School, east of Winter Park, Florida
• The Pennington School
• The Potter's School (online homeschool school)
• The Petersfield School
• Toowoomba Preparatory School, located near the Toowoomba range escarpment
• Temecula Preparatory School, charter school in Winchester, California.

Other

• Tax Profile Services, property tax consultants specializing in golf clubs, banks and other commercial properties
• Tall poppy syndrome, used in Australia and New Zealand to describe what is seen as a leveling social attitude
• Temporary protected status, an immigration designation in the United States, allowing a temporary freeze on deportations
• Toronto Police Service, formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Police, the police force for the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Telephone Preference Service, a UK opt-out telephone list that is intended to maintain the ability of marketeers to carry on cold call telemarketing but which purports to prevent telemarketing calls to those who do not wish to receive them
• Target Plaza South, a skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where Target Corporation has headquarters
• Toyota Production System, the philosophy which organizes manufacturing and logistics at Toyota
• Trapani-Birgi Airport in Italy, with IATA airport code "TPS"
• Train protection system
• Tourism Promotion Services the subordinate of Aga Khan Development Network
• The Postal Service, An American Indie band.
• Target Protection Specialist, the internal term for retail security employees of Target Corporation
• Telangana Praja Samithi - A political movement for Telangana
• The People's Supermarket, a co-operative supermarket in Holborn, London

• Disambiguation pages