SA

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Sa, SA or S.A. may refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

• SA, an initialism of the soprano and alto voice types for which a piece of music was 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

Other media

• S · A: Special A, a manga series by Maki Minami
• Something Awful, a comedy website

Language and writing

• sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection"
• Sa (kana) (さ and サ), a Japanese kana
• 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"
• Sa (Javanese) (ꦱ), a letter in the Javanese script

Businesses and organizations

Military and paramilitary

• Sherut Avir, the air branch of the Haganah
• Somali Army, the military of Somalia
• Soviet Army (Советская Армия, Sovetskaya Armiya)
• Sturmabteilung (SA), a paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

Political organisations

• 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

• S.A. (corporation), a type of corporation in various countries
• S.A. (Salvation Army), an international church and charity
• Sexaholics Anonymous, a sex-addiction recovery group based on the 12-steps of AA
• South African Airways
• Success Academy Charter Schools, term commonly abbreviated to 'Success Academy'

Places

• SA postcode area, UK, a group of postal districts in Wales
• Saline County, Kansas
• San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Sarajevo (official city abbreviation)
• Saudi Arabia (two-letter country code)
• South Africa
• South America
• South Australia

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• Salicylic acid, a plant hormone
• Spontaneous abortion
• Sustained action, a longer-acting form of a medication

Computing and telecommunications

• .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
• System administrator
• System architecture
• Systems analysis
• Systems analyst

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• 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

• Seaman apprentice, a US navy and coastguard rank
• Secrecy Agreement, a legal contract for confidentiality
• Sex appeal
• Share-alike, a term used in Creative Commons licensing

See also

• Sá, a Portuguese surname
• All pages with titles containing sa