RPA

Abbreviations.

RPA

1. Initialism of Rural Payments Agency.

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.

From French RPA.

RPA (plural RPAs)

1. (Quebec) Privately-operated retirement home

• RPA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

RPA f (plural RPAs)

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

• English: RPA

• IPA^(key): /ɛr.pɛˈa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: R‧P‧A

RPA f

1. initialism of Republika Południowej Afryki (“Republic of South Africa”), official name of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa

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