TMA

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English

Noun

TMA (countable and uncountable, plural TMAs)

  1. (linguistics) Initialism of tense, mood, and aspect.
    • c. 2003, David J. Peterson, The Kelenala TMA System:
      a TMA system is the kind of thing that explains English “would”, “could”, “-ed”, “-ing”, “-s”, “have”, “been”, etc.
  2. (chemistry, countable) Initialism of trimethoxyamphetamine.
    • 2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      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.
  3. Initialism of television market area.

Adjective

TMA (not comparable)

  1. (LGBTQ) Initialism of transmisogyny-affected.
    Coordinate term: TME
    • 2020, S. L. Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism:
      [] 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; []

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Spanish

Noun

TMA f (uncountable)

  1. Initialism of tristeza y muerte de agave: a blight that has reduced the production of the agave grown to produce tequila