# MA

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**Ma**, **MA**, or **mA** may refer to:

## Academia

- [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts), a degree award
- [Marin Academy](/source/Marin_Academy), a high school in San Rafael, California
- [Menlo-Atherton High School](/source/Menlo-Atherton_High_School), a public high school in Atherton, California
- [Minnehaha Academy](/source/Minnehaha_Academy), a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- [Monument Academy](/source/Monument_Academy), a charter school in El Paso county, Colordo

## Arts and entertainment

### Music

- [*Ma* (Anjan Dutt album)](/source/Ma_(Anjan_Dutt_album)) (1998)
- [*Ma* (Rare Earth album)](/source/Ma_(Rare_Earth_album)) (1973)
- [*Ma* (Sagarika album)](/source/Ma_(Sagarika_album)) (1998)
- [*Ma* (Zubeen Garg album)](/source/Ma_(Zubeen_Garg_album)) (2019)
- *[Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me)](/source/Ma!_(He's_Making_Eyes_at_Me))*, an album by Lena Zavaroni (1974)
- [Massive Attack](/source/Massive_Attack), a British trip hop band
- In music instructions, "but", especially in the phrase *ma non troppo* (see [Glossary of musical terminology#M](/source/Glossary_of_musical_terminology#M))
- In [tonic sol-fa](/source/Tonic_sol-fa), a flattened me
- [Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives](/source/Encyclopaedia_Metallum:_The_Metal_Archives), a website devoted to heavy metal bands
- [Mā (musician)](/source/M%C4%81_(musician)), New Zealand songwriter and rapper

### Fictional characters

- [Ma (*The Lion King*)](/source/Ma_(The_Lion_King)), a main character in the animated film *Lion King 1½*
- [Ma Beagle](/source/Ma_Beagle), in the Donald Duck universe
- [Ma Hunkel](/source/Ma_Hunkel), a DC Comics character
- [Ma and Pa Kettle](/source/Ma_and_Pa_Kettle), a 1940s and 1950s comic film character
- *[Ma Perkins](/source/Ma_Perkins)*, an American radio soap opera (1932-1960)
- The Ma family, in the 2014 South Korean television series *[4 Legendary Witches](/source/4_Legendary_Witches)*

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

- [*Ma* (film)](/source/Ma_(film)), a horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
- [Ma (negative space)](/source/Ma_(negative_space)), a Japanese concept of negative space
- [Memory Alpha](/source/Memory_Alpha), a *Star Trek*-oriented wiki
- [Miss America](/source/Miss_America), a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant
- [*MA* (journal)](/source/MA_(journal)), a Hungarian art magazine

## Businesses and organizations

- [Malév Hungarian Airlines](/source/Mal%C3%A9v_Hungarian_Airlines) (IATA designator: MA)
- [Mastercard](/source/Mastercard) (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
- Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as [FlyMontserrat](/source/FlyMontserrat)
- [Motorcycling Australia](/source/Motorcycling_Australia)
- [Motorsport Australia](/source/Motorsport_Australia)
- [Orange Movement](/source/Orange_Movement) (*Movimento Arancione*), an Italian political party
- [Market America](/source/Market_America), a product brokerage and internet marketing company
- [Museums Association](/source/Museums_Association), UK
- Musicians Australia, a trade union run by the [Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance](/source/Media,_Entertainment_and_Arts_Alliance)

## People

- Ma, an informal synonym for [mother](/source/Mother)
- [Ma (surname)](/source/Ma_(surname)) (马/馬), a common Chinese family name
- [Ma (surname 麻)](/source/Ma_(surname_%E9%BA%BB)), a less common Chinese surname
- [Ma Barker](/source/Ma_Barker) (1873–1935), American criminal and mother of criminals
- [Ma Beland](/source/Ma_Beland) (1870–1952), American drug trafficker
- [Miriam A. Ferguson](/source/Miriam_A._Ferguson) (1875–1961), twice governor of Texas
- [Harriet Pullen](/source/Harriet_Pullen) (1860–1947), American entrepreneur and hotelier
- [Ma Rainey](/source/Ma_Rainey), stage name of American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886–1939)
- [Ma Anand Sheela](/source/Ma_Anand_Sheela), Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders
- (Mª or Ma.), according to [Spanish naming customs#Maria](/source/Spanish_naming_customs#Maria)
- [Mạ people](/source/M%E1%BA%A1_people), a Vietnamese ethnic group
- [Meshwesh](/source/Meshwesh), an ancient Libyan tribe

## Language

- [Ma (cuneiform)](/source/Ma_(cuneiform)), a cuneiform sign
- [Ma (Indic)](/source/Ma_(Indic)), an Indic consonant
- [Ma (Javanese)](/source/Ma_(Javanese)) (ꦩ), a letter in the Javanese script
- [Ma (kana)](/source/Ma_(kana)) (ま, マ), a Japanese kana
- [Ma (negative space)](/source/Ma_(negative_space)), a Japanese reading of a Sino-Japanese character
- [Ma language](/source/Ma_language), a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- [Ma language (Papuan)](/source/Ma_language_(Papuan)), a language of Papua New Guinea

## Mythology

- [Ma (Sumerian mythology)](/source/Ma_(Sumerian_mythology)), a Sumerian word to regard the Primordial Land
- [Ma (goddess)](/source/Ma_(goddess)), an Anatolian goddess
- Ma, a mythohistoric entrepreneur for whom the Malaysian town of [Marang, Terengganu](/source/Marang,_Terengganu) was purportedly named

## Places

- [Ma River](/source/Ma_River), a river in Vietnam and Laos
- [Ma, Tibet](/source/Ma,_Tibet), a village
- Ma, a country code for [Morocco](/source/Morocco) - [.ma](/source/.ma), the Internet domain for Morocco
- MA, a country code of [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar)
- MA, a postal code for [Maranhão](/source/Maranh%C3%A3o), Brazil
- MA, a subdivision code for [Maluku (province)](/source/Maluku_(province)), Indonesia
- MA, a U.S. state abbreviated for [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts)

## Science, technology, and mathematics

### Chemistry

- [Methyl anthranilate](/source/Methyl_anthranilate), used as a bird repellent
- [Mesaconitine](/source/Mesaconitine) a toxin from plants

### Health and medicine

- [MA (chemotherapy)](/source/MA_(chemotherapy)) is a chemotherapy regimen
- [Marijuana Anonymous](/source/Marijuana_Anonymous), a group recovery program
- [Medical assistant](/source/Medical_assistant), a type of health care worker
- [Metabolic acidosis](/source/Metabolic_acidosis), a medical condition characterized by increased acid production
- [Metabolic alkalosis](/source/Metabolic_alkalosis), a medical condition with an elevated pH level

### Mathematics

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

### Measurements

- [Mach number](/source/Mach_number) (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
- [Megaannum](/source/Megaannum) (Ma), one million years
- [Megaampere](/source/Megaampere) (MA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
- [Milliampere](/source/Milliampere) (mA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere

### Other uses in science and technology

- [Mechanical advantage](/source/Mechanical_advantage) (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
- [Mechanical alloying](/source/Mechanical_alloying) (MA), a technique to produce alloys
- [Ford MA](/source/Ford_MA), a 2002 concept car
- [Nissan MA engine](/source/Nissan_MA_engine), an automotive engine introduced in 1982

## Other uses

- [Ma clique](/source/Ma_clique), a group of warlords from 1919 until 1928
- [Martial arts](/source/Martial_arts), systems for combat
- [Master-at-arms (United States Navy)](/source/Master-at-arms_(United_States_Navy)), an enlisted rating in the US Navy
- [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages), a period of European history

## See also

- "Mature audience", a U.S. [television rating system](/source/Television_rating_system) category, abbreviated TV-MA
- [Maa (disambiguation)](/source/Maa_(disambiguation))

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