MA

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MA or Ma or mA may refer to:

In academia

• Master's degree, an advanced academic degree
• Master of Arts, a degree awarded at many universities
• Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
• Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

In arts and entertainment

In music

• Ma (Anjan Dutt album) (1998)
• Ma (Rare Earth album) (1973)
• Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
• Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands
• In music instructions, "but," especially in the phrase ma non troppo (see Glossary of musical terminology#M)
• In tonic sol-fa, a flattened me

Other media

• Ma (Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
• Ma (negative space), a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
• "Mature audience", a U.S. television rating system category, abbreviated TV-MA
• "MA15+", a classification of the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification, meaning "Not suitable for ages under 15"
• Memory Alpha, a Star Trek-oriented wiki
• Miss America, a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant

Businesses and organizations

• Malév Hungarian Airlines (IATA designator: MA)
• MasterCard (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
• Motorcycling Australia
• Orange Movement (Movimento Arancione), an Italian political party
• Market America, a product brokerage and internet marketing company
• Museums Association, UK

Ethnic groups

• Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
• Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica

Human names

• Ma (surname), a common Chinese family name
• Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
• Ma Barker (1873-1935), American criminal and mother of criminals
• Ma Rainey, stage name of early American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886-1939)

In language

• Ma language, a language spoken in DRC Congo
• Ma (kana), a Japanese kana
• Ma (Javanese) (ꦩ), a letter in the Javanese script
• Ma (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign

In mythology

• Ma (myth), in Sumerian mythology, that from which the "primeval land" was formed
• Ma (goddess), a local name for Cybele and also an independent Greek goddess
• Ma, an Anatolian goddess
• Ma, a mythohistoric entrepreneur for whom the Malaysian town of Marang, Terengganu was purportedly named

Places

• Ma River, river in Asia, running through Vietnam and Laos
• Ma, Tibet, a village and township in China
• Madagascar (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• Maranhão, a Brazilian state (ISO 3166-2 geocode: BR-MA)
• Massachusetts, US (postal code)
• Metropolitan area, a qualifying term, e.g. "Tokyo MA"
• ISO 3166 country code of Morocco
  • .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco

In science, technology, and mathematics

In chemistry

• Methyl anthranilate, used as a bird repellent
• Minor actinides, the actinide elements in used nuclear fuel other than uranium and plutonium
• Monomethyl aniline, a solvent, chemical intermediate, and gasoline additive

In health and medicine

• MA (chemotherapy) is an acronym for Mitoxantrone + standard-dose Ara-C (cytarabine) chemotherapy regimen
• Marijuana Anonymous, a group recovery program aimed at marijuana addiction
• Marketing authorization, an authorization granted by a regulatory authority to market a new drug
• Medical assistant, a type of health care worker
• Metabolic acidosis, a medical condition in which the pH of body is decreased beyond the normal range
• Metabolic alkalosis, a medical condition in which the pH of body is elevated beyond the normal range
• Methamphetamine, a psychostimulant

In mathematics

• MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol
• Martin's axiom, an axiom in mathematical logic
• Moving-average model (MA), in statistics

Measurements

• Mach number (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
• Megaannum (Ma), one million (1,000,000) years
• Milliampere (mA), and Mega-ampere or Megampere (MA), multiples of Ampere, a unit of electric current
• Myr or Ma, meaning "million years ago"

Other uses in science and technology

• Mechanical advantage (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
• Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys
• Ma, a type of interface in an IP Multimedia Subsystem

Other uses

• Ma, a synonym for Mother
• Martial arts
• Master-at-arms (United States Navy) (MA), an enlisted rating in the US Navy
• Middle Ages, a period of European history

See also

• Maa (disambiguation)