SPA
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A spa is a therapeutic water treatment.
Spa or SPA may also refer to:
Places
-  Spa, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
- Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, a racing circuit in Spa, Belgium
 
 - Spa, County Down, a village in County Down, Northern Ireland
 - Spa, the name of two towns in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland
 - Spa Creek, a tributary of the Severn River that forms part of the harbor of Annapolis, Maryland
 
Art, entertainment, and media
- SPA (band), a 1990s British band
 - Spa (Sirius XM), a New Age music channel on Sirius and XM satellite radio
 
Brands, enterprises, and organizations
- Spa (mineral water), a brand of Belgian mineral water
 - A type of resort, treatment, or treatment center
 - Spa town, a town noted for its spa, for example Bath, England
 - Franchi SPAS-12 combat shotgun
 - Saudi Press Agency
 - School of Planning and Architecture, a group of autonomous public institutes of higher education in India
 - Scottish Publishers Association, a trade association
 - Seychelles Port Authority
 - Single-page application
 - Socialist Party of America
 - Socialistische Partij Anders, a Flemish Social-Democratic Party (SP.A)
 - Società per Azioni, S.p.A., public limited company, Italy
 - Society for Popular Astronomy, a society for amateur astronomers in the UK
 - Software Publishers Association, now known as the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
 - Summer Performing Arts Company, educational theatre program, Grand Forks, North Dakota, US
 - The Saviour (Russian: Спас, Spas), a Russian militant nationalist group
 
Computing and technology
- Secure Password Authentication
 - Sense Plan Act, a robot control methodology
 - Simple power analysis, a type of cryptographic attack
 - Single-page application, a type of web application
 - Single Packet Authorization, a special form of port knocking
 
Science
- Scintillation proximity assay, for biochemical development and screening
 - Spathoglottis, an orchid genus
 - Substance P antagonist, in neuroscience
 
Other uses
- S.P.A. (automobile), Società Piemontese Automobili a Turin-based car manufacturer (1908-1926)
 - Special Protection Area, a European Union nature conservation designation
 - Special Protocol Assessment, by US FDA
 - SPA - share purchase agreement (or stock purchase agreement, or sale and purchase agreement) - the primary contractual document in private corporate mergers and acquisitions practice, for the sale of a business or company.
 
See also
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