MA

Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

• Master of Arts, a degree award
• Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
• Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Arts and entertainment

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 (film), a 2019 horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
• Ma (The 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"
• Ma and Pa Kettle are 1940s and 1950s comic film characters
• 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)
• MC (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
• Motorcycling Australia
• Motorsport 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 and individuals

• 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)
• Ma Anand Sheela, Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders

Language

• Má, a Chinese word for cannabis
• Ma (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
• Ma (Javanese) (ꦩ), a letter in the Javanese script
• Ma (kana), a Japanese kana
• Ma language, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Ma language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea

Mythology

• Ma (myth), 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
• FIPS 10-4 country code of Madagascar
• Maranhão, a state of Brazil, postal code MA
• Massachusetts, a state of the United States
• Morocco (ISO 3166-1 country code)
  • .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco

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

Geology

• mega-annum (Ma), a million years

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
• 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, 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
• Ma, a type of interface in an IP Multimedia Subsystem

Other uses

• Ma (mom), a synonym for Mother
• 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

See also

• Maa (disambiguation)
• Mother (disambiguation)
• Mommy (disambiguation)
• Mama (disambiguation)
• Mom (disambiguation)