PPA

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PPA can be an abbreviation for:

• Algerian People's Party (French: Parti du Peuple Algerien)
• Pacific Pearl Airways - an airline in the Philippines
• Palpatio per anum Latin/medical term for a rectal examination.
• Parahippocampal Place Area located within the parahippocampal gyrus
• Pay-per-action
• Pension Protection Act of 2006
• Personal Purchasing Agent
• Phenylpropanolamine
• Phenylacetic acid
• Planning, Preparation and Assessment time - (in the UK) a contractual entitlement to time set aside during the normal school day when a teacher has time to plan, prepare and do assessment of work. The class will be taken by another teacher during this time. It consists of at least 10% of a teacher's timetable, so is typically 2 hours per week, either in 2 1-hour blocks or in a single 2-hour block for a full-time teacher
• The Poker Players Alliance, a USA advocacy/lobbying group
• Popski's Private Army - a small World War II Special Forces unit of 8th Army.
• Power/Performance/Area, a set of metrics commonly used in microprocessors.
• Power Purchase Agreement - Contract between an electricity generator and customer for the supply of energy and/or capacity. Such contracts are typically used to sell the output of a power asset for a known revenue stream that can be used to raise non-recourse or project level debt. Also used to pay for solar installations by agreeing to purchase the power generated by the panels
• Purchase Price Allocation
• Primary progressive aphasia
• Hewlett-Packard Printing Performance Architecture
• Pro-pedophile activism
• Professional Photographers of America
• Professional Putters Association
• Progressive Peoples Alliance - a political party in Nigeria
• Protein Phosphatase Assay
• Provisional patent application
• Periodical Publishers Association
• Production part approval - a Supplier document, terminology used in AGCO, brazil (instead of PPAP)