MA

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MA may stand for:

• Martial Arts
• Master of Arts (postgraduate), a postgraduate academic degree
• Master of Arts (Scotland), an undergraduate degree in Scotland
• Master of Arts (Oxbridge), an undergraduate degree from Oxbridge
• MA (complexity), a complexity class, comprising the languages decidable by interactive proof systems of the Merlin-Arthur type
• Metropolitan Area, an urban area
• Madagascar (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• "Main Assist": in MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online roleplaying games), the target selector for a party or raid. Therefore, if the MA = "Johdpur", a member of the party/raid should have an "/assist Johdpur" macro ready. This allows the party/raid to quickly dispatch priority targets.
• MALÉV Hungarian Airlines (IATA airline designator)
• Marketing automation
• Massachusetts (United States postal abbreviations)
• Mature Audience, a classification for media in Australia - see Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia) and Australian Communications and Media Authority
• Medical assistant
• Megampere or Mega-ampere, an SI unit of electric current (worth 10⁶ A)
• Memory Alpha
• Morocco (ISO 3166 country code)
• The Moving average model, in statistics
• The Museums Association, in the UK
• NYSE: MA, the stock symbol for MasterCard.

M.A. can stand for:

• Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
• Marijuana Anonymous, a fellowship of recovering Marijuana addicts similar to Alcoholics Anonymous
• Magister Artium or Master of Arts (M.A.), see Master's degree

Ma may stand for:

• Ma, a two-letter English word meaning "mother" (taken from Hindi language family)
• "Ma" is the word for mother, or part of the word for mother, in many languages around the world. See Mama and papa
• Romanisation of the Japanese kana character ま and マ
• Ma, transliteration of the ancient Egyptian abbreviation of Meshwesh, an ancient Berber tribe
• Ma, transliteration of Chinese family name 馬,马,麻 etc.
• Ma (myth), a Sumerian word meaning "land"
• Mega-annum or Megayear (Ma), a time period of one million (10⁶) years
• Ma is the second syllable in the Buddhist "six syllable mantra" Om mani padme hum
• Space, in Japanese (often refers to silence in music)
• The Ma River, in Vietnam
• The Ma people, an ethnic group in Vietnam
• The Mach number, a measure of speed in a medium, comparing to the speed of sound
• Ma (The Lion King), Timon's mother in The Lion King 1½.

ma may stand for:

• In English, "ma" is a colloquial term of endearment, short for "mother" (abbreviated from "mamma").
• In Italian, "ma" means the English word "but".
• In Japanese, "ma" can also refer to a demon.
• In Hungarian, "ma" means the English word "today".
• In the hebrew language, "ma" means the English word "what".

mA may stand for:

• Milliampere, an SI unit of electric current (worth 0.001 A).