TMA

plural TMAs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of tense, mood, and aspect.

   a TMA system is the kind of thing that explains English “would”, “could”, “-ed”, “-ing”, “-s”, “have”, “been”, etc.

   c. 2003, David J. Peterson, The Kelenala TMA System

   Synonyms: TAM

2. abbreviationcountableinitialismchemistryInitialism of trimethoxyamphetamine.

   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.

   2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablechemistryInitialism of trimethylamine.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of television market area.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableroadInitialism of truck-mounted attenuator.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of transmisogyny-affected, i.e. transfeminine.

   Coordinate term: TME

   3 more examples

   […] 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; […]

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

   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.

   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

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

   2025 May 28, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN