• SPA (band)
  SPA (band)
  SPA are a British band comprising Simon Toulson-Clarke, Phill Brown and Alastair Gavin. Toulson-Clarke and Gavin had previously worked together on the Red Box album Motive.SPA was an acronym of the names of its members - Simon, Phill and Alastair....
  
  , a 1990s British band

As an abbreviation

• Saddle point approximation, a term used in quantum field theory
• Sales and Purchase Agreement, a legal term for selling a company
• Sales Per Admission, a term used in film exhibition; product/food sales per ticket sold
• Saudi Press Agency
  Saudi Press Agency
  The Saudi press agency ' was established in 1971 as the first national news agency. The main goal of its establishment was to serve as a central body to collect and distribute local and international news in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad....
  
  
• Science Practical Assessment, the Singapore's assessment of students in science practicals
• Scintillation proximity assay
  Scintillation proximity assay
  Scintillation proximity assay, commonly known as SPA, is a type of technology that is used to assay development and biochemical screening which permit the rapid and sensitive measurement of a broad range of biological processes in a homogeneous system....
  
  , an assay used for biochemical development and screening
• School of Planning and Architecture
  School of Planning and Architecture
  School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi is a National Resource Institute of India. It is also one of the few premier 'Centrally Funded Technical Institutions ' under the Government of India. Currently there are 3 SPAs all over India, administered under the MHRD, Government of India...
  
  , India's premier architecture and city-planning institution, located in Delhi
• Scottish Publishers Association
  Scottish Publishers Association
  The Scottish Publishers Association , established in 1973 as the Scottish General Publishers Association with the support of the Scottish Arts Council, was the trade association of nearly 80 publishing companies in Scotland...
  
  , a trade association
• Secure Password Authentication
  Secure Password Authentication
  Secure Password Authentication is a proprietary Microsoft protocol used to authenticate Microsoft email clients with an electronic mail server when using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol , Post Office Protocol , or Internet Message Access Protocol . The protocol was based on the Integrated...
  
  
• Self-Propelled Artillery
  Self-propelled artillery
  Self-propelled artillery vehicles are combat vehicles armed with artillery. Within the term are covered self-propelled guns and rocket artillery...
  
  
• Sense Plan Act
  Sense Plan Act
  Sense-Plan-Act was the predominate robot control methodology through 1985.# Sense - gather information using the sensors# Plan - create a world model using all the information, and plan the next move# Act...
  
  , an artificial intelligence methodology used in robotics
• Separation Party of Alberta
  Separation Party of Alberta
  The Separation Party of Alberta is a political party that advocates the secession of Alberta from Canada. Its leader is Bruce Hutton.-History:...
  
  
• Seven Party Mujahideen Alliance, the alliance of Afghan mujahideen guerrillas against the Soviets
• Seychelles Port Authority
  Seychelles Port Authority
  The Seychelles Port Authority is a government agency of Seychelles, created by the Seychelles Ports Authority Act 2004, that governs and operates the ports of the country, principally the Port of Victoria. It was formerly known as the Ports and Marine Services Division...
  
  
• Shuttle PCB Assembly, a notebook motherboard standard.
• Simple power analysis, a type of cryptographic attack
• Single Packet Authorization
• Single Page Application
  Single page application
  A single-page application , also known as single-page interface , is a web application or web site that fits on a single web page....
  
  , a web application that is entirely contained on the client-side typically using a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets
• Single Parent Assistant, a project team of SungKyunKwan University's social entrepreneurship, Lecture of International Communication Practice(prof. Jazreel Gang-Graham). SPA helps single parent and wants to change prejudice of single parent. Web adress is http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/SPASingle-Parent-Assistants/236928573027365
• Single Pitch Award, a qualification for the supervision of rock climbing awarded by the National Governing Bodies for Mountaineering in the UK
• Share purchase agreement, a contract to sell/buy shares
• Special pale ale, a term used to designate a certain type of pale ale
  Pale ale
  Pale ale is a beer which uses a warm fermentation and predominantly pale malt. It is one of the world's major beer styles.The higher proportion of pale malts results in a lighter colour. The term "pale ale" was being applied around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with coke, which resulted in a...
  
  
• Socialist Party of America
  Socialist Party of America
  The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...
  
  
• Socialist Party of Australia
• Società per Azioni, an Italian corporate form used by major public corporations quoted on the Italian stock exchange
• Società Piemontese Automobili, a Torino-based car manufacturer (1908-1926)
• Société protectrice des animaux, an animal welfare organization in France
• Society for Popular Astronomy
  Society for Popular Astronomy
  The Society for Popular Astronomy is a national astronomical society based in the United Kingdom for beginners to amateur astronomy.It was founded in 1953 as the Junior Astronomical Society by experienced amateur astronomers including Patrick Moore, Ernest Noon and Eric Turner to encourage...
  
  , Society for amateur astronomers in the UK
• Software Publishers Association, now known as the Software and Information Industry Association
  Software and Information Industry Association
  The Software & Information Industry Association is a United States based software trade association. The organization lobbies United States policy makers as well as conducting surveys and research and many conferences and webcasts....
  
   (SIIA)
• Sony Pictures Animation
  Sony Pictures Animation
  Sony Pictures Animation is an American computer-animated film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, founded in May 2002. It is working closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which takes care of the digital production...
  
  
• Sp.a, the "Socialistische Partij - Anders" (Socialist Party - Differently), the socialist party in Flanders
• Spathoglottis
  Spathoglottis
  Spathoglottis is a genus of orchids . This genus is allied to genera Acanthephippium, Bletia, Calanthe, and Phaius. This genus is abbreviated Spa in trade journals. The genus Paxtonia Lindl...
  
  , an orchid genus
• Special Price Agreement, price agreement with vendor for specific project
• Special Prorate Agreement, an agreement between airlines, serves as addendum for Interline
  Interlining
  Interlining is a voluntary commercial agreement between individual airlines to handle passengers traveling on itineraries that require multiple airlines.-Agreements:...
  
   agreement
• Special Protection Area
  Special Protection Area
  A Special Protection Area or SPA is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.Under the Directive, Member States of the European Union have a duty to safeguard the habitats of migratory birds and certain particularly threatened birds.Together with Special...
  
  , a European Union nature conservation designation
• Special Protocol Assessment, a declaration from the FDA
  Food and Drug Administration
  The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
  
   that a proposed Phase III clinical trial is acceptable for FDA approval.
• spontaneous platelet aggregation, a medical term used in connection with coagulation tests
• Stimulation-produced analgesia, a term related to the GATE theory in physiology of pain
• St. Paul Academy and Summit School
  St. Paul Academy and Summit School
  St. Paul Academy and Summit School is a college preparatory independent day school in St. Paul, Minnesota, for students in grades K–12....
  
  , a private K-12 school in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• St Patrick's Athletic, a football (Soccer) club in Ireland
• Stochastic process algebra
• Student Peace Alliance
  Student Peace Alliance
  The Student Peace Alliance is a nonpartisan student action organization advocating peace across the United States of America. Founded at Brandeis University in the Spring of 2006 by Aaron Voldman and Julia Simon-Mishel, Student Peace Alliance is a 5014 organization, and has 100 chapters in the...
  
  , a student led peace organization in the United States of America
• subpoena
  Subpoena
  A subpoena is a writ by a government agency, most often a court, that has authority to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure. There are two common types of subpoena:...
  
  
• Substance P
  Substance P
  In the field of neuroscience, substance P is a neuropeptide: an undecapeptide that functions as a neurotransmitter and as a neuromodulator. It belongs to the tachykinin neuropeptide family. Substance P and its closely related neuropeptide neurokinin A are produced from a polyprotein precursor...
  
   antagonist, a term used in biochemistry
• Summer Performing Arts Company
  Summer Performing Arts Company
  The Summer Performing Arts Company is a summerstock educational theatre program in Grand Forks, North Dakota that is part of the Grand Forks Public Schools...
  
  , a summer educational theatre program in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
• Supreme People's Assembly
  Supreme People's Assembly
  The Supreme People's Assembly is the unicameral parliament of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , commonly known as North Korea...
  
  , the parliament of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Sustainable Population Australia
  Sustainable Population Australia
  Sustainable Population Australia is an Australian special advocacy group, founded in Canberra in 1988, which seeks to establish an "ecologically sustainable" human population...
  
  , an Australian environmental advocacy group
  Advocacy group
  Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems...
  
  
• Singapore Pakistani Association
• Special Program in the Arts