SPA

On Wikipedia, SPA may refer to a single-purpose account.

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
  • Day spa
  • Destination spa
  • Mineral spa
• 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

• Hot tub
• Resort