SMA

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SMA may stand for:

• Styrene Maleic Anhydride, a copolymer with high heat properties
• Saint Mary's Academy, Rawalpindi, a private English-medium school in Pakistan
• San Marcos Baptist Academy, a coed prep school Baptist institution in Texas, USA
• Santa Maria Airport (Azores), an airport in the Azores
• Sergeant Major of the Army, the senior enlisted member of the U.S. Army
• Seoul Metropolitan Area, a region in South Korea
• Shanghai Maple Automobile, an automobile manufacturer based in Shanghai, China
• Shape memory alloy, a metal that "remembers" its geometry
• Shared Memory Architecture, a design where a computer graphics chip does not have its own dedicated memory
• Simple moving average, the unweighted mean of the previous n data points, when analyzing time series data
• Singapore-MIT Alliance, an educational initiative
• Sir Mix-a-Lot, the stage name of Anthony Ray, a rapper and producer
• Connectors:
  • SMA connector, a type of coaxial radio-frequency connector
  • Optical fiber connector
• SMA Engines, a diesel aircraft engine manufacturer
• Staunton Military Academy, Charles Town, Virginia
• Stone mastic asphalt, a type of road surface
• Stop motion animation/animator, where objects are moved by small amounts between frames
• Submillimeter Array, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
• Super Mario Advance, a game in the Mario series
• Super Mario Adventures, an anthology of comics featuring the characters from Nintendo's Mario series

[edit] Medicine

• Spinal muscular atrophy, a motor neuron disease
• Supplementary motor area, part of the sensorimotor cortex
• Superior mesenteric artery, a blood vessel