TMA

See also: tma

English

Noun

TMA (countable and uncountable, plural TMAs)

1. (linguistics) Initialism of tense, mood, and aspect.

   Synonym: TAM

   • 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. (chemistry) Initialism of trimethylamine.
4. Initialism of television market area.
5. (road transport) Initialism of truck-mounted attenuator.

Proper noun

TMA

1. Initialism of Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

Adjective

TMA (not comparable)

1. (LGBTQ) Initialism of transmisogyny-affected, i.e. transfeminine.

   Coordinate term: TME

   • 2020, Sarah Lynn Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism‎, master's thesis:

     […] 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; […]

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2025 May, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN:

     TMA people are maddened from multiple angles, complex motivations, intentions, and needs flattened into impenetrable problems for disposal.

Anagrams

• AMT, ATM, MAT, MTA, Mat, Mat., TAM, amt, amt., atm, mat, mat., tam

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