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TMA en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of transmisogyny-affected, i.e. transfeminine.
    • […] transmisogyny-affected (TMA) people, are in the greatest danger of TERF violence, and thus their critiques take priority in the fight against TERFs. With TMA people routinely excluded from the bounds of academia, […] impacted by transmisogyny; […] 2020, Sarah Lynn Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism, master's thesis:
    • TMA people are maddened from multiple angles, complex motivations, intentions, and needs flattened into impenetrable problems for disposal. 2025 May 14, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN:
    • It is urgently critical to operationalize gender expression when considering the experiences of TNB women and feminine individuals, and even more so with those who are transmisogyny-affected, because policing and weaponizing of feminine gender expression is done with higher intensity for TMA than TME people. 2024, Teresa Van Winkle, Navigating the World: Understanding Gender Expression Through the Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary People, master's thesis, order no. 31336206 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
    • Coordinate term: TME

TMA en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of tense, mood, and aspect.
    alt of and aspect
    alt of mood
    alt of tense
    • a TMA system is the kind of thing that explains English “would”, “could”, “-ed”, “-ing”, “-s”, “have”, “been”, etc. c. 2003, David J. Peterson, The Kelenala TMA System:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of trimethoxyamphetamine.
    • A little over 50 years later – with LSD, psilocybin, psilocin, TMA, several compounds based on DMT and various other isomers – the number was up to almost 20. 2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of trimethylamine.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of television market area.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of truck-mounted attenuator.

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Synonyms

TAM

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

TMA en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Tokyo Metropolitan Area.