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RPA en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of remotely piloted aircraft.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of robotic process automation.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of random phase approximation.
    • 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. 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:

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Coordinates

cruise missile (remotely piloted aircraft) · drone (remotely piloted aircraft) · RC (remotely piloted aircraft) · UCAV (remotely piloted aircraft)

Hypernyms

UAV (remotely piloted aircraft)

Relateds

OPA (remotely piloted aircraft) · ROV (remotely piloted aircraft)

Source: en.wiktionary, “RPA” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

RPA en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Rural Payments Agency.
Source: en.wiktionary, “RPA” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

RPA en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From French RPA.

Meanings

  1. (Quebec) Privately-operated retirement home

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