APA

Associations

• Aborigines Progressive Association
  Aborigines Progressive Association
  The Aborigines Progressive Association, was established in 1937 by William Ferguson, Pearl Gibbs and Jack Patten in Dubbo, New South Wales. Ferguson and Gibbs led a group in the western part of the state, while Patten assemble an alliance of activists in the north-east...
  
  , an Australian organization
• All Peoples' Association
  All Peoples' Association
  The All Peoples' Association was a voluntary organisation to foster international amity, established in London in 1930 by Sir Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English-Speaking Union and Royal Overseas League....
  
   (1930-1936), a British voluntary organization
• Allied Pilots Association, the certified collective bargaining agent for American Airlines pilots
• American Philological Association
  American Philological Association
  The American Philological Association , founded in 1869, is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization...
  
  , North American scholarly organization devoted to Greek and Roman civilization
• American Philosophical Association
  American Philosophical Association
  The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work...
  
  , main professional organization for philosophers in the United States
• American Planning Association
  American Planning Association
  The American Planning Association is a professional organization representing the field of city and regional planning in the United States. The APA was formed in 1978 when two separate professional planning organizations, the American Institute of Planners and the American Society of Planning...
  
  , a professional organization representing the field of city and regional planning in the United States
• American Polygraph Association
  American Polygraph Association
  The American Polygraph Association was established in 1966 and includes 2,500 members in the polygraph field.The stated goals of the APA are:*Serving the cause of truth with integrity, objectivity and fairness to all persons...
  
  
• American Poolplayers Association
  American Poolplayers Association
  The American Association was founded in 1981 by professional pool players Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart, although with roots dating back to the National Pool League , founded in 1979. The APA conducts a system of franchised-based local amateur leagues of pool competition, including both...
  
  
• American Poultry Association
  American Poultry Association
  The American Poultry Association is the oldest poultry organization in the North America. Founded in 1873, and incorporated in Indiana in 1932 The first American poultry show was held in 1849, and the APA was later formed in response to the burgeoning need for an overseeing body to set standards...
  
  
• American Protective Association
  American Protective Association
  The American Protective Association, or APA was an American anti-Catholic society similar to the Know Nothings.-History:The APA was founded 13 March 1887 by Attorney Henry F. Bowers in Clinton, Iowa...
  
  , an American anti-Catholic organization during the Gilded Age
• American Psychiatric Association
  American Psychiatric Association
  The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...
  
  
• American Psychological Association
  American Psychological Association
  The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...
  
  ; also
  • APA style
    APA style
    American Psychological Association Style is a set of rules that authors use when submitting papers for publications in APA journals. The APA states that they were developed to assist reading comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and to "move the idea...
    
    , writing format developed by the above
• American Psychoanalytic Association
  American Psychoanalytic Association
  American Psychoanalytic Association is an association of psychoanalysts in the United States. It was founded in 1911, and forms part of the International Psychoanalytical Association.-External links:**...
  
  
• American Psychopathological Association
  American Psychopathological Association
  The American Psychopathological Association is an organization, "devoted to the scientific investigation of disordered human behavior, and its biological and psychosocial substrates."The association was founded in 1910...
  
  
• APA – The Engineered Wood Association
  APA – The Engineered Wood Association
  APA - The Engineered Wood Association is a nonprofit trade association of the United States and Canadian engineered wood products industry. They represent engineered wood manufacturers and mandate things such as quality testing, product research, and market development.- History :The APA was...
  
  , formerly known as the American Plywood Association
• Association of Publishing Agencies
  Association of Publishing Agencies
  The Association of Publishing Agencies is a not-for-profit trade body that promotes the interests of companies involved in the production customer publishing.-Structure:...
  
  
• Australian Parkour Association
  Australian Parkour Association
  The Australian Parkour Association is an incorporated association concerned with the promotion and teaching of parkour throughout Australia...
  
  
• Japan Advertising Photographers' Association
  Japan Advertising Photographers' Association
  The , within Japan commonly called APA, was founded in 1958. It has held exhibitions since 1959 and publishes an annual survey of the most interesting work....
  
  

Entertainment and culture

• Acolytes Protection Agency
  Acolytes Protection Agency
  The Acolytes Protection Agency , was a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of Bradshaw and Faarooq. They wrestled for the American promotion World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment between October 1998 and March 2004....
  
  , a former professional wrestling tag-team
• Amateur press association
  Amateur press association
  An amateur press association is a group of people who produce individual pages or magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all members of the group.-Organisation:...
  
  , a group of people who self-publish material among themselves
• American pale ale
• Americanist Phonetic Alphabet, now known as the Americanist phonetic notation
  Americanist phonetic notation
  Americanist phonetic notation is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American anthropologists and language scientists for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of Native American and European languages...
  
  
• Anglican Province of America
  Anglican Province of America
  The Anglican Province of America is one of a number of "Continuing" Anglican churches in the United States. This church considers the Episcopal Church in the USA to be heretical, thus it maintains a church separate from that body in order to follow what it considers to be a truly Christian and...
  
  
• ARCAM Private Army, a protagonist in the Spriggan (manga)
  Spriggan (manga)
  is a manga series written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa during the early 1990s. It was initially released as Striker in the North American English translation, as it is the English translation of the word Spriggan from Celtic.Spriggan takes places in the last years of the...
  
  
• The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• apa, ISO 639 code of the Southern Athabaskan languages
  Southern Athabaskan languages
  Southern Athabaskan is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken primarily in the North American Southwest with two outliers in Oklahoma and Texas...
  
   (excluding Navajo)

Military

• Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression
  Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression
  -Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression:APA - Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression, Training System is a proven special force response system, founded by Chief Tactical Instructor Chris Mar under direct authorization of the Interior Ministry as initiated by...
  
  , a Special Tactics Close Quarters Combat System
• Army Prosecuting Authority
  Army Prosecuting Authority
  The Service Prosecuting Authority is the organisation within the Ministry of Defence, responsible for consideration of cases referred to it by the Service Police and where appropriate the Military Chain of Command and where necessary the directing and prosecuting of those cases at Courts Martial...
  
  
• APA, the US Navy's Hull Number prefix for Attack transport
  Attack transport
  Attack Transport is a United States Navy ship classification.-History:In the early 1940s, as the United States Navy expanded in response to the threat of involvement in World War II, a number of civilian passenger ships and some freighters were acquired, converted to transports and given hull...
  
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Politics and government

• Adirondack Park Agency
  Adirondack Park Agency
  The Adirondack Park Agency was created in 1971 by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as a governmental agency that performs long-range planning for the future of the Adirondack Park. It oversees development plans of private land-owners as well as activities within the Adirondack Forest Preserve...
  
  
• Administrative Procedure Act
  Administrative Procedure Act
  The Administrative Procedure Act , , is the United States federal law that governs the way in which administrative agencies of the federal government of the United States may propose and establish regulations. The APA also sets up a process for the United States federal courts to directly review...
  
  , an American statute controlling government agency actions
• Advance Pricing Agreement
  Advance Pricing Agreement
  An Advance Pricing Agreement is an ahead of time agreement between a taxpayer and a taxing authority on an appropriate transfer pricing methodology for some set of transactions at issue over a fixed period of time ....
  
  
• Anti-pedophile activism
  Anti-pedophile activism
  Anti-pedophile activism encompasses opposition against pedophiles, against pedophile advocacy groups, and against other phenomena that are seen as related to pedophilia, such as child pornography and child sexual abuse...
  
  
• Australian Progressive Alliance
  Australian Progressive Alliance
  The Australian Progressive Alliance was a minor liberal party in Australia, formed by Meg Lees, an independent senator and former leader of the Australian Democrats, in April 2003...
  
  

Transport

• A-P-A Transport Corp.
  A-P-A Transport Corp.
  A-P-A Transport Corp. was a North Bergen, NJ based trucking and shipping company, at one point it was the nation's fourth largest interstate freight trucking company.-Origins:...
  
  
• Apache Railway, from its reporting mark
• Centennial Airport
  Centennial Airport
  Centennial Airport is located in Dove Valley, an unincorporated portion of Arapahoe County near Denver, Colorado. The airport’s runways also extend into neighboring Douglas County. The airport opened on May 12, 1967 as Arapahoe County Airport, and was renamed on July 13, 1984...
  
  , Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States, IATA airport code

Other uses

• Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma
• All Points Addressable
  All Points Addressable
  All Points Addressable , in the context of a video monitor, dot matrix or any display device consisting of a pixel array, refers to an arrangement bits or cells which can be individually manipulated, as opposed to rewriting the whole array every time a pixel changes.Generally, text modes are not...
  
  
• Amplified piezoelectric actuator
  Amplified Piezoelectric Actuator
  thumb|Panorama of [[piezoelectric]] actuators, classified on a stroke over force mapAmplified piezoelectric actuators are specific actuators using piezoelectric materials as active material, and having a specific design to overcome traditional limitations of classical direct piezoelectric actuator,...
  
  
• Anderson Preparatory Academy
  Anderson Preparatory Academy
  Anderson Preparatory Academy is a public charter school in Anderson, Indiana, United States, authorized by Ball State University. The school is a military style academy for boys and girls in grades k-11....
  
  , a school in Indiana, United States
• Asian Pacific American
  Asian Pacific American
  Asian-Pacific American or Asian-Pacific Islander is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans....
  
  
• Australian Postgraduate Awards
  Australian Postgraduate Awards
  The Australian Postgraduate Awards, funded by the Australian Federal Government, are designed to support postgraduate research training. The allocation each tertiary institution receives is based in part on its overall research performance....
  
  
• Austria Presse Agentur, the Austrian Press Agency
• Azerbaijan Press Agency
  Azerbaijan Press Agency
  The Azerbaijan Press Agency is one of the chief news agencies in Azerbaijan. The agency is an independent private limited liability company founded in 2004....
  
  

Apa (without caps)

• Father (1966 film)
  Father (1966 film)
  Father is a 1966 Hungarian drama film written and directed by István Szabó. The film is a coming of age story. The main character copes with his childhood loss of his father against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and memories of the Arrow Cross dictatorship.-Cast:* András Bálint...
  
   (Hungarian: Apa), a 1966 Hungarian film
• Apa, Nigeria
  Apa, Nigeria
  Apa local government of Benue State was created in 1991 by the then military head of state of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida; covering what was the old Ochekwu district of Otukpo division. Its headquarters is at Ogbokpo. It is one of the 9 local government areas in the southern...
  
  , a Local Government Area in Benue State, Nigeria
• Apa, Satu Mare
  Apa, Satu Mare
  Apa is a commune of 2,960 inhabitants situated in Satu Mare County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Apa, Lunca Apei and Someşeni....
  
  , a commune in Satu Mare County, Romania
  • a type of sword named after the village; see Bronze Age sword
    Bronze Age sword
    Bronze Age swords appear from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea region and the Aegean, evolving out of the dagger. They are replaced by the Iron Age sword during the early part of the 1st millennium BC....
    
    
• Apa Sherpa, a Nepali Sherpa and famous Mt. Everest mountaineer