IPA

IPA commonly refers to:

• The International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
  • Its organisation, the International Phonetic Association.
• India Pale Ale, a style of beer
• Isopropyl alcohol, rubbing alcohol

IPA may also refer to:

Organizations

International

• Insolvency Practitioners Association of the UK and Ireland
• Institute of Public Administration (disambiguation) (similarly named bodies in various countries)
• International Permafrost Association
• International Play Association
• International Police Association
• International Polka Association
• International Psychoanalytical Association
• International Publishers Association

Australia

• Institute of Public Accountants, Australia
• Institute of Public Affairs, Australia

United States

• Independent Pilots Association, United States
• Independence Party of America
• International Police Academy, operated by the Office of Public Safety
• Institute for Propaganda Analysis, United States
• Institute for Public Accuracy, United States
• Island Pacific Academy, a school in Hawaii
• Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization for poverty alleviation
• Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, a prohibitionist organization
• Independent practice association, a group of medical doctors
• Innovative Products of America (IPA), an original equipment manufacturer of tools

Other

• The Involvement and Participation Association
• Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, UK
• Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
• Instituto Superior Autónomo de Estudos Politécnicos, Portugal
• Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia

Science and technology

• Identity, Policy, Audit, an LDAP-based user-authentication suite
• Intermediate power amplifier, a part of a radio transmitter
• Interprocedural analysis, a computer-optimization technique
• .ipa (file extension), of iPhone applications
• Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, software for biologists from Ingenuity Systems
• Information Processing Architecture, International Computers Limited (ICL) computer-networking standard

Other

• Indigenous Protected Area, Australia
• Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, funding assistance programme of the EU
• Interpretative phenomenological analysis
• Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, an expansion-block for the card game Invasion (Magic: The Gathering)