SA
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Sa, SA, S.A. or s.a. may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment
[edit]Music
[edit]- Initialism for "soprano and alto", voice types for which a piece of music is written
- SA (Samurai Attack), a Japanese punk rock band
- SA Martinez, a vocalist and DJ for the band 311
- Soziedad Alkoholika, a Spanish punk rock band
- SA, a 2018 album by Jonathan Richman
- Strike Anywhere, a hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia
Other media
[edit]- Sa (film), a 2016 Indian film
- S.A (manga), a manga series by Maki Minami
- Something Awful, a comedy website
- Star Awards, an annual Singaporean television award ceremony
- Subterranean Animism, a video game from the Touhou series by ZUN
- Siragadikka Aasai (TV series), an Indian TV series
Language and writing
[edit]- Sa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
- sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection"
- Sa (kana) (さ and サ), characters (kana) in the two Japanese syllabaries
- Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu
- Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), a historical Indo-Aryan language, the liturgical language of Hinduism
- Sine anno, Latin term for "without year" used in bibliographies to indicate items which do not record the year of publication
- Sub anno (s.a. or sa), Latin term for "under the year" in annals which record by year
- Sa (Javanese) (ꦱ), a character in the Javanese script
Businesses and organizations
[edit]Military and paramilitary
[edit]- Soviet Army, army of the Soviet Union
- Sturmabteilung (SA), a paramilitary wing of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), also known as the Brownshirts
Political organisations
[edit]- Socialist Action (disambiguation), several organisations
- Socialist Alliance (Australia), a Socialist political party
- Socialist Alliance (England), a political party in England
- Socialist Alternative (Australia), a Marxist political organisation
Other businesses and organizations
[edit]- System Architect, an enterprise architecture product
- S.A. (corporation) (French: Société Anonyme) a type of corporation in various countries
- San Antonio Spurs, a basketball team in the U.S. National Basketball Association
- The Salvation Army, an international church and charity
- Sexaholics Anonymous, a sex-addiction recovery group based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Shooting Australia, governing body for target shooting sports in Australia
- Smokers Anonymous
- South African Airways (IATA airline designator: SA)
- Sports Authority, a defunct U.S. sporting goods retailer
- Success Academy Charter Schools, term commonly abbreviated to 'Success Academy'
Places
[edit]- Vehicle registration plate for the province of Salerno, Italy
- SA postcode area, a group of postal districts near Swansea, Wales, UK
- Sakha Republic, a federal Russian republic
- Saline County, Kansas, U.S.
- San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
- Sarajevo (official city abbreviation)
- Saudi Arabia (two-letter country code)
- South Asia
- South Africa
- South America
- South Australia
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Biology and medicine
[edit]- Salicylic acid, a plant hormone
- Spontaneous abortion
- Sustained action, a longer-acting form of a medication
- Surface area
- Sense of agency
Computing and telecommunications
[edit]- .sa, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saudi Arabia
- Security association in the IPsec networking protocol
- Selective availability, a mechanism for degrading the precision of the civilian GPS network
- Simulated annealing, an optimisation technique
- Software architect
- Software architecture
- Microsoft Software Assurance
- Structured analysis, a software engineering technique
- Suffix array, a sorted array of all suffixes of a string
- System administrator
- System architecture
- Systems analysis
- Systems analyst
- System agent
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]- Sa (Islamic measure), Arabic measure of volume
- Samarium (former chemical symbol: Sa), a rare earth metal
- Single action, a type of firearm trigger
- Situation awareness, a component of aviation safety and other socio-technical systems
- Spectral acceleration, in seismology and earthquake engineering
- Superabundant number, a type of number (mathematical concept)
- Unbarred spiral galaxy
- Short axis, in single-photon emission computed tomography
- Surface area
Other uses
[edit]- Sa (Mandaeism), a type of Mandaean sacramental bread that is rolled up
- Seaman apprentice, a U.S. Navy and Coast Guard rank
- Secrecy agreement, a legal contract for confidentiality
- Sex appeal, attraction on the basis of sexual desire
- Sexual assault, the intentional act of sexually touching another person without their consent
- Share-alike, a term used in Creative Commons licensing
- Second Amendment to the constitutions of several sovereign states and subnational entities
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, the most common meaning of "Second Amendment"
- Single adult (LDS Church), a designation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for unmarried individuals 18 and older; sometimes used specifically to refer to unmarried individuals over 30
- Special agent, a position usually held by investigative officers within certain law enforcement agencies in the United States
- San Andreas (disambiguation)
- MG SA, a sporting saloon
See also
[edit]- S+A, defunct Philippine TV network
- Sá, a Portuguese surname
- Sa (萨), a rare Chinese surname of Semu origin (see 雁门萨氏)
- Semi-automatic (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing sa