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Ma, MA, or master

Academia[edit]

Master of Arts, a degree award
Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Music[edit]

Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands
Ma (Anjan Dutt album) (1998)
Ma (Rare Earth album) (1973)
Ma (Sagarika album) (1998)
Ma (Zubeen Garg album) (2019)
Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
In music instructions, "but", especially in the phrase ma non troppo (see Glossary of musical terminology#M)
In tonic sol-fa, a flattened me

Other media[edit]

Ma (film), a 2019 horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
Ma (negative space), a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
"Mature audience", a U.S. television rating system category, abbreviated TV-MA
"MA15+", a classification of the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification, meaning "Not suitable for ages under 15"
Memory Alpha, a Star Trek-oriented wiki
Miss America, a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant
MA (journal), a Hungarian art magazine

Fictional characters[edit]

Ma (The Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
Ma and Pa Kettle, 1940s and 1950s comic film characters

Businesses and organizations[edit]

Malév Hungarian Airlines (IATA designator: MA)
Mastercard (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
Motorcycling Australia
Motorsport Australia
Orange Movement (Movimento Arancione), an Italian political party
Market America, a product brokerage and internet marketing company
Museums Association, UK
Musicians Australia, a trade union run by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

Ethnic groups[edit]

Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica

Human names and individuals[edit]

Ma (surname), a common Chinese family name
Maria (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
Ma Barker (1873–1935), American criminal and mother of criminals
Ma Rainey, stage name of early American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886–1939)
Ma Anand Sheela, Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders

Language[edit]

Má, a Chinese word for cannabis
Ma (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
Ma (Javanese) (ꦩ), a letter in the Javanese script
Ma (kana), a Japanese kana
Ma language, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ma language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea

Mythology[edit]

Ma (Sumerian mythology), in Sumerian mythology, that from which the "primeval land" was formed
Ma (goddess), an Anatolian goddess
Ma, a mythohistoric entrepreneur for whom the Malaysian town of Marang, Terengganu was purportedly named

Places[edit]

Ma River, a river in Vietnam and Laos
Ma, Tibet, a village and township in Tibet
Morocco (ISO 3166-1 country code)
- .ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
FIPS 10-4 country code of Madagascar
Maranhão, a state of Brazil, postal code MA
Maluku, a province of Indonesia (ISO 3166-2:ID subdivisions)
Massachusetts, a state of the United States

Science, technology, and mathematics[edit]

Chemistry[edit]

Methyl anthranilate, used as a bird repellent
Minor actinides, the actinide elements in used nuclear fuel other than uranium and plutonium
Monomethyl aniline, a solvent, chemical intermediate, and gasoline additive
Methylammonium (CH₃NH₃), e.g., in methylammonium lead halides

Geology[edit]

mega-annum (Ma), a million years

Health and medicine[edit]

MA (chemotherapy) is an acronym for Mitoxantrone + standard-dose Ara-C (cytarabine) chemotherapy regimen
Marijuana Anonymous, a group recovery program aimed at marijuana addiction
Marketing authorisation, an authorisation granted by a regulatory authority to market a new drug
Medical assistant, a type of health care worker
Metabolic acidosis, a medical condition in which the pH of body is decreased beyond the normal range
Metabolic alkalosis, a medical condition in which the pH of body is elevated beyond the normal range
Methamphetamine, a psychostimulant

Mathematics[edit]

MA (complexity), a set of decision problems that can be decided by an Arthur–Merlin protocol
Martin's axiom, an axiom in mathematical logic
Moving-average model (MA), in statistics

Measurements[edit]

Mach number (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
Megaannum (Ma), one million (1,000,000) years
Milliampere (mA), and Mega-ampere or Megampere (MA), multiples of Ampere, a unit of electric current
Myr, Mya, or Ma, meaning "million years ago"

Other uses in science and technology[edit]

Mechanical advantage (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
Mechanical alloying (MA), a technique to produce alloys
Ma, a type of interface in an IP Multimedia Subsystem

Other uses[edit]

Ma (mom), a synonym for Mother
Ma clique, a group of warlords from 1919 until 1928
Martial arts
Master-at-arms (United States Navy) (MA), an enlisted rating in the US Navy
Metropolitan area
Middle Ages, a period of European history
Motorcycle accident