MA

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Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

• Master of Arts, a degree award
• Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
• Menlo-Atherton High School, a public high school in Atherton, California
• Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Ma (Anjan Dutt album) (1998)
• Ma (Rare Earth album) (1973)
• Ma (Sagarika album) (1998)
• Ma (Zubeen Garg album) (2019)
• Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me), 1974 debut album of Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni
• Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
• In music instructions, "but", especially in the phrase ma non troppo (see Glossary of musical terminology#M)
• In tonic sol-fa, a flattened me
• Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands

Fictional characters

• Ma (The Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
• Ma Beagle, in the Donald Duck universe
• Ma Gnuchi, a Marvel Comics character
• Ma Hunkel, a DC Comics character
• Ma Kettle, a 1940s and 1950s comic film character
• The protagonist of Ma Perkins, an American radio soap opera which aired from 1932 to 1960
• The Ma family, in the 2014 South Korean television series 4 Legendary Witches

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Ma (2019 film), a horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
• Ma (negative space), a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
• Memory Alpha, a Star Trek-oriented wiki
• Miss America, a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant
• MA (journal), a Hungarian art magazine

Businesses and organizations

• Malév Hungarian Airlines (IATA designator: MA)
• Mastercard (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
• Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as FlyMontserrat
• Motorcycling Australia
• Motorsport Australia
• Orange Movement (Movimento Arancione), an Italian political party
• Market America, a product brokerage and internet marketing company
• Museums Association, UK
• Musicians Australia, a trade union run by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

People

• Ma, an informal synonym for mother
• Ma (surname), a common Chinese family name
• Ma Barker (1873–1935), American criminal and mother of criminals
• Ma Beland (1870–1952), American drug trafficker
• Miriam A. Ferguson (1875–1961), nicknamed "Ma", American politician, twice governor of Texas and first female governor of Texas
• Harriet Pullen (1860–1947), American entrepreneur and hotelier nicknamed "Ma"
• Ma Rainey, stage name of early American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886–1939)
• Ma Anand Sheela, Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders
• Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
• Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
• Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica

Language

• Ma (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
• Ma (Indic), an Indic consonent
• Ma (Javanese) (ꦩ), a letter in the Javanese script
• Ma (kana), a Japanese kana
• Ma (negative space), a Japanese reading of a Sino-Japanese character
• Ma language, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Ma language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea

Mythology

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

Places

• Ma River, a river in Vietnam and Laos
• Ma, Tibet, a village and township in Tibet
• Morocco (ISO 3166-1 country code)
  • .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
• FIPS 10-4 country code of Madagascar
• Maranhão, a state of Brazil, postal code MA
• Maluku (province), a province of Indonesia (ISO 3166-2:ID subdivisions)
• Massachusetts, state abbreviation MA, one of the United States

Science, technology, and mathematics

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
• Methylammonium (CH₃NH₃), e.g., in methylammonium lead halides

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 authorisation, an authorisation 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

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
• Megaampere (MA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
• Megaannum (Ma), one million years
• Milliampere (mA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
• Myr, Mya, 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
• Marketing automation (MA), technology designed to automate marketing-related tasks
• Ma, a type of interface in an IP Multimedia Subsystem
• Ford MA, a 2002 concept car
• Nissan MA engine, an automotive engine introduced in 1982

Other uses

• Ma clique, a group of warlords from 1919 until 1928
• Martial arts
• Master-at-arms (United States Navy) (MA), an enlisted rating in the US Navy
• Metropolitan area
• Middle Ages, a period of European history
• Motorcycle accident
• Motorsport Australia

See also

• "Mature audience", a U.S. television rating system category, abbreviated TV-MA
• Maa (disambiguation)

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