MA

Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

Arts and entertainment

Music

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

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

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

Other uses

See also
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