Uma

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UMA or Uma is a name or a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

Contents 1 Abbreviations 2 People 3 Places 4 Other

[edit] Abbreviations

• Ukrainian Museum-Archives, a museum in Cleveland, Ohio dedicated to Ukrainian culture
• Unidentified Mysterious Animal, in cryptozoology
• Unified Memory Architecture, a computer memory architecture that allows the graphics processing unit to share system memory
• Uniform Memory Access, a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers
• Unlicensed Mobile Access, a technology that provides roaming between GSM and Bluetooth or 802.11, now known as Generic Access Network
• Ursa Major (UMa), a constellation
• In medicine, UMA may refer to urinary vanillyl mandelic acid, the vanillyl mandelic acid (VMA) concentration in the urine (see catecholamines).

[edit] People

• Uma Bharati, an Indian politician and sannyasin
• Uma Khouny, an Israeli-Filipino contestant in Pinoy Big Brother
• Uma Pemmaraju, a news anchor for Fox News Channel
• Uma Thurman, an American actress

[edit] Places

• Uma, Ehime, a district district in Ehime prefecture, Japan
• Universidad de Málaga, a university in Spain

[edit] Other

• Uma, am alternate name for the Hindu goddess Parvati
• Uma (lizard genus), a genus of Fringe-Toed Lizards
• Uma (band), a band
• Cyclone Uma, a tropical cyclone which caused considerable damage to Port Vila, Vanuatu in 1987
• Uma, one of the main characters of Oobi