Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rpa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English

Syllables: rpa
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of Rural Payments Agency.

noun

Initialism of remotely piloted aircraft.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of robotic process automation.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of random phase approximation.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Privately-operated retirement home

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: RPA

Usage

Inflected Forms

RPAs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

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Questions

What does rpa mean?: Initialism of Rural Payments Agency.
Where does rpa come from?: It is traced to French.

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