MA

MA is an abbreviation and Ma may be an abbreviation, a word, or a Chinese or Taiwanese name. It may refer to:

People

Main article: Ma (surname)

• Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan.
• Ma Jun, a Chinese environmentalist, non-fiction writer and journalist.
• Ma Jun, a Chinese mechanical engineer and government official during the Three Kingdoms era of China.
• Ma Lin (table tennis), a Chinese Table Tennis player.
• Ma (surname), a common Chinese family name

In academia

• Master of Arts (MA), a degree at the English-speaking universities; someone admitted to this degree.

For the degree at Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, please see Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin). For that at certain of the Scottish universities, please see Master of Arts (Scotland). For the degree at other universities, please see Master of Arts (postgraduate).

• Marin Academy (MA), high school in San Rafael, California
• Minnehaha Academy (MA), private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Museums Association (MA), UK

In science and technology

• mya (unit), sometimes written as Ma, means "millions of years ago" or megaannum.
• .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
• Mach number (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
• Megaannum (Ma), one million (1,000,000) years
• Mechanical advantage (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
• Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys.
• Medical assistant (MA), a type of health care worker
• Methyl anthranilate (MA), a bird repellent
• Milliampere (mA), a unit of electrical current
• Moving average model (MA(q)), statistics
• MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol
• Martin's axiom, an axiom in mathematical logic
• a type of interface (Ma) in an IP Multimedia Subsystem

In geography

• Ma River, river in Asia, running through Vietnam and Laos
• Madagascar (MA), FIPS 10-4 country code
• Maranhão (BR-MA), part of the ISO 3166-2:BR geocode for the Brazilian state
• Massachusetts (MA), United States postal abbreviations for the state
• Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica
• Metropolitan area (MA), a qualifying term, e.g. "Tokyo MA"
• Morocco (MA), ISO 3166 country code
• Ma is the mythohistoric entrepreneur for whom, tradition holds, Marang, Terengganu was denoted

In myth and culture

• Ma people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
• Ma (Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
• Ma (myth), in Sumerian mythology that from which the "primeval land" was formed
• Ma (goddess), a local name for Cybele and also an independent Greek goddess

In other uses

• "MA15+", an Australian film and video game classification meaning "Not suitable for under 15s"
• Mature audience is a U.S. television rating system category abbreviated as TV-MA
• Memory Alpha (MA), a Star Trek-oriented wiki
• Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (MA), a website devoted to heavy metal bands
• Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
• Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
• Ma (negative space), a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
• Methamphetamine, a psychostimulant
• Mother, "Ma" used as a synonym
• Marijuana Anonymous (MA), a group recovery program aimed at marijuana addiction
• Martial arts (MA), only used in combining forms such as MMA or MCMAP
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (MA), IATA airline designator
• MasterCard, NYSE stock symbol
• Marvellous attack, a term used in StepMania game, it means to get only Marvellous (the highest) rankings for each step.
• Motorcycling Australia
• Ma is white, whero is red, kakariki green, pango is black, mangu is too, AEIOU.
• MA means MashALLAH, meaning with the will of GOD

See also

• Maa (disambiguation)