SSA

SSA backwards is ASS. SSA may refer to:

Geography

• Sub-Saharan Africa

Organizations

• SSA Global Technologies
• Shan State Army, a former insurgent group in Burma
• Slovak Society of Actuaries
• Soaring Society of America
• Society of Scottish Artists
• Föreningen Sveriges Sändareamatörer, an amateur radio organization in Sweden
• Singapore Scout Association
• Seismological Society of America
• Scottish Socialist Alliance
• Sainsbury's Staff Association, of Sainsbury's, UK
• Sudan Studies Association, US professional association

Education

• School of Saint Anthony, Quezon City, Philippines
• Secular Student Alliance, US
• Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Government

• Social Security Administration of the US government
• Social Security Agency, Northern Ireland
• State Security Agency, the South African intelligence service

Computing

• Software Security Assurance
• Serial Storage Architecture
• Singular Spectrum Analysis
• Stationary Subspace Analysis
• Static single assignment form, a property of intermediate representations used in compilers
• Stochastic Simulation Algorithm
• SubStation Alpha and .ssa file format, a video subtitle editor
• Super systolic array
• Start of Selected Area, a control character in the C1 control code set
• Solid State Array, in flash data storage using solid-state drives

Science

• Semantic structure analysis
• Single-strand annealing in homologous recombination
• Specific surface area, a property of solids
• Side-side-angle in geometry for solving triangles

Medicine

• Senile systemic amyloidosis
• Sessile serrated adenoma, a type of pre-malignant intestinal polyp
• Special somatic afferent
• Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies
• Sulfosalicylic acid

Other uses

• SSA, Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of South Africa
• Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport, IATA Airport code
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the Government of India's Education for All programme
• Self-sampling assumption
• Shared services agreement
• Slippery slope argument, a rhetorical device (and often a fallacy)
• ESA Space Situational Awareness Programme
• Special services area or business improvement district
• Special Service Agreement between the UN and a contractor