SA

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

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

Initialism for "soprano and alto", voice types for which a piece of music is 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
SA, a 2018 album by Jonathan Richman
Strike Anywhere, a hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia

Other media

Sa (film), a 2016 Indian film
S.A (manga), a manga series by Maki Minami
Something Awful, a comedy website
Star Awards, an annual Singaporean television award ceremony
Subterranean Animism, a video game from the Touhou series by ZUN
Siragadikka Aasai (TV series), an Indian TV series

Language and writing

Characters and glyphs

Sa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
Sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection"
Sa (Javanese) (ꦱ), a character in the Javanese script
Sa (kana) (さ and サ), characters (kana) in the two Japanese syllabaries

Languages

Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu
Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), an Indo-Aryan language, and the liturgical language of Hinduism

Businesses and organizations

Types of corporation

S.A. (corporation) (French: Société Anonyme) a type of joint-stock company in civil law countries
- Spółka Aukcyjna ("Joint-stock company" in Polish)

Military and paramilitary organizations

Soviet Army, army of the Soviet Union
Sturmabteilung (SA), a paramilitary wing of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), also known as the Brownshirts

Political organisations

Socialist Action (disambiguation), several organisations
Socialist Alliance (Australia), a Socialist political party
Socialist Alternative (Australia), a Marxist political organisation

Other businesses and organizations

System Architect, an enterprise architecture product
San Antonio Spurs, a basketball team in the U.S. National Basketball Association
The Salvation Army, an international church and charity
Sexaholics Anonymous, a sex-addiction recovery group based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
Scouting America, main scouting movement in the US, formerly Boy Scouts of America
Shooting Australia, governing body for target shooting sports in Australia
Smokers Anonymous
South African Airways (IATA airline designator: SA)
Sports Authority, a defunct U.S. sporting goods retailer
Success Academy Charter Schools, term commonly abbreviated to 'Success Academy'

Job titles

Seaman apprentice, a U.S. Navy and Coast Guard rank
Software architect
Special agent, a position usually held by investigative officers within certain law enforcement agencies in the US
System administrator, in information technology
Systems analyst, in information technology

Places

SA postcode area, a group of postal districts near Swansea, Wales, UK
Province of Salerno, Italy, by vehicle registration plate code
Sakha Republic, a federal Russian republic
Saline County, Kansas, U.S.
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Sarajevo (official city abbreviation)
Saudi Arabia (two-letter country code)
South Asia
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
Sense of agency

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 architecture
Microsoft Software Assurance
Something Awful, American comedy website founded in 1999
Spatial architecture, a computer architecture parallelizing kernels across many processing elements
Standalone mode, in 5G cellular telecoms; see 5G NR § Standalone mode
Structured analysis, a software engineering technique
Suffix array, a sorted array of all suffixes of a string
System architecture
Systems analysis
System agent

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

Sa (Islamic measure), Arabic measure of volume
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)
Surface area
Unbarred spiral galaxy
Short axis, in single-photon emission computed tomography

Other uses

Sa (Mandaeism), a type of Mandaean sacramental bread that is rolled up
Sine anno, Latin term for 'without year' used in bibliographies to indicate items which do not record the year of publication
Sub anno (s.a. or sa), Latin term for 'under the year' in annals which record by year
Simple asphyxiant, encoded on NFPA 704 as SA
Secrecy agreement, a legal contract for confidentiality
Sex appeal, attraction on the basis of sexual desire
Sexual assault, the intentional act of sexually touching another person without their consent
Sexual abuse, act of abusing someone sexually
The ShareAlike condition of Creative Commons licenses
Second Amendment (disambiguation) to the constitutions of several sovereign states and subnational entities
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, the most common meaning of "Second Amendment"
Single adult (LDS Church), a designation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for unmarried individuals 18 and older; sometimes used specifically to refer to unmarried individuals over 30
San Andreas (disambiguation)
MG SA, a sporting saloon
Saturday

SA

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

Other media

Language and writing

Characters and glyphs

Languages

Businesses and organizations

Types of corporation

Military and paramilitary organizations

Political organisations

Other businesses and organizations

Job titles

Places

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

Computing and telecommunications

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

Other uses

See also