TMA

TMA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Tejano Music Awards, Texas, US
• TMA Awards (now UK Theatre Awards)
• Total Media Agency, a Japanese pornography producer
• The Mod Archive, a web index of music module files
• The Magnus Archives, a fictional horror podcast
• "The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who)", a 2015 TV episode

Science

• Tense–Modality–Aspect or tense–aspect–mood, grammatical system
• Tetramethylammonium ion or its salts
• Thermomechanical analysis
• Third man argument, a philosophical criticism of Plato's theory of Forms
• Thrombotic microangiopathy
• Tissue microarray, device for analysing many histological tissue samples
• Transcription mediated amplification, in molecular biology
• Trimethylamine, (CH₃)₃N, a simple amine
• Trimethylaluminium, (CH₃)₃Al
• Trimesic acid
• Psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs that are isomeric-substituted amphetamines:
  • 3,4,5-Trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA or TMA-1)
  • 2,4,5-Trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA-2)
  • 2,3,4-Trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA-3)
  • 2,3,5-Trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA-4)
  • 2,3,6-Trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA-5)
  • 2,4,6-Trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA-6)
• Tristeza y muerte de agave, a collective term for diseases of blue agave

Transportation

Aviation

• Terminal Manoeuvring Area / Terminal Control Area - aviation term for a controlled high-volume airspace
• Trans Maldivian Airways
• TMA Cargo (Trans Mediterranean Airways SAL), a defunct Lebanese airline

Engineering

• TMA Engineering, UK
• Truck-mounted attenuator, crash attenuator

Space exploration

• Russian Soyuz spacecraft missions (Russian: транспортный модифицированный антропометрический, romanized: Transportnyi Modifitsirovannyi Antropometricheskii, lit. 'Transport Modified Anthropometric', or ТМА)
  • Soyuz TMA-1, launched 30 October 2002
  • Soyuz TMA-2, launched 26 April 2003
  • Soyuz TMA-3, launched 18 October 2003
  • Soyuz TMA-4, launched 19 April 2004
  • Soyuz TMA-5, launched 14 October 2004
  • Soyuz TMA-6, launch 15 April 2005
  • other Soyuz-TMA missions

Military

• Target Motion Analysis, by submarine sonar
• Tanzania Military Academy
• Yugoslavian landmines:
  • TMA-1 mine
  • TMA-2 mine
  • TMA-3 mine
  • TMA-4 mine

Communications

• Television Market Area, official designation of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
• Tower Mounted Amplifier or masthead amplifier

Medicine

• Tissue microarray, a paraffin block in which tissue cores are assembled in array fashion to allow multiplex histological analysis

Other uses

• Tehsil Municipal Administration
• Texas A&M Maritime Academy, at Texas A&M University at Galveston
• TMA (The Marketing Arm), a marketing and creative agency owned by Omnicom Group