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What does MA stand for? What does MA mean?
- Master of Arts, a degree award
- Marin Academy, a high school in San Rafael, California
- Minnehaha Academy, a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Ma (Anjan Dutt album) (1998)
- Ma (Rare Earth album) (1973)
- Massive Attack, a British trip hop band
- Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands
- In music instructions, "but," especially in the phrase ma non troppo (see Glossary of musical terminology#M)
- In tonic sol-fa, a flattened me
- Ma (film), a 2019 horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
- Ma (The Lion King), a main character in the animated film Lion King 1½
- 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"
- Ma and Pa Kettle are 1940s and 1950s comic film characters
- 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
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (IATA designator: MA)
- MC (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
- Mạ people, a Vietnamese ethnic group
- Meshwesh (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica
- 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
- 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
- Ma (myth), 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
- Ma River, a river in Vietnam and Laos
- Ma, Tibet, a village and township in Tibet
- FIPS 10-4 country code of Madagascar
- Maranhão, a state of Brazil, postal code MA
- Massachusetts, a state of the United States
- Morocco (ISO 3166-1 country code)
.ma, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
- 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
- mega-annum (Ma), a million years
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- MAA (singer), Japanese pop singer, previously known as Mar from the band Marbell
- Maa Afia Konadu (1950–2019), Ghanaian media personality
- Mathematical Association of America, a professional society that focuses on mathematics
- Medieval Academy of America, a US organization in the field of medieval studies
- Montreal AAA, a Canadian athletic association
- Moot Alumni Association, the alumni association of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
- Manufacturer's Aircraft Association, a 1917 US aerospace committee
- Military Aviation Authority, part of the UK Ministry of Defence responsible for regulating air safety across Defence
- Maryland Aviation Administration, a state agency of Maryland and an airport authority under the jurisdiction of the Maryland Department of Transportation
- Microcomputer Applications Associates, a predecessor to Gary Kildall's Digital Research
- Maa (album), by Rajaton
- Maa (1952 film), Bollywood film directed by Bimal Roy
- Maa (1959 film), Oriya film directed by Nitai Palit
- Maa (1976 film), Bollywood film directed by M.A. Thirumugham
- Maa (1991 film), Bollywood film starring Jeetendra and Jaya Pradha
- Maa (1992 Hindi film)
- Maa, 1992 Bengali film directed by Prashanta Nanda
- Maa, 1991 ballet music by Kaija Saariaho
- Maa (novel), a novel by Anisul Hoque
- Maa (drama serial), a Bengali television serial
- MAA TV, a Telugu-language television channel based in Hyderabad, India
- Maa-Palaeokastro, promontory and Late Bronze Age archaeological site on west coast of Cyprus
- Maa languages, a group of closely related languages (or dialects) spoken in Tanzania and Kenya
Maa language, or Maasai
- Master-at-arms, a type of security or training personnel
- Magma Arizona Railroad, the reporting mark of Magma Arizona Railroad
- Maastricht Aachen Airport, Netherlands (IATA airport code MST)
- Chennai International Airport, Meenambakkam, India (IATA airport code MAA)
- Marketing Authorization Application, an application (to a regulatory authority) to market a new drug
- Maximum Availability Architecture (Oracle MAA) for Oracle databases
- Methacrylic acid, a low-molecular-weight carboxylic acid
- Message Authenticator Algorithm, an early cryptographic function
- Microcomputer Applications Associates, a precursor of Gary Kildall's (Intergalactic) Digital Research, Inc. in the 1970s
- Multi-area agreement, a grouping of local-body areas in the United Kingdom
- Measurement assisted assembly, any method of assembly in which measurements are used to guide assembly processes
- Technetium (99mTc) albumin aggregated (99mTc-MAA), a radiopharmaceutical used for nuclear medicine lung imaging
- Mid-America Apartment Communities, US real estate investment trust
- The Mother (Čapek play), a 1938 play by Karel Čapek
- Mother (Goodman play), a 1910 play by Jules Eckert Goodman
- "Mother" (short story), a 1907 short story by Owen Wister
- Mother (Gorky novel), 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky
- "A Mother", a 1914 short story by James Joyce
- Mother (1910 film), an American silent film by the Thanhouser Company
- Mother (1914 film), an American silent film by Maurice Tourneur
- Mother, a 1927 American silent film written by Charles Kerr
- Mother (1996 film), an American film by Albert Brooks
- Mother, a 2006 short film by Sian Heder
- mother!, a 2017 American film by Darren Aronofsky
- "Mother" (Once Upon a Time), a 2015 episode from the TV series Once Upon a Time
- Mother, a computer in Alien (1979)
- Mother (1926 film), a Russian film by Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Mother (1937 film), a Hungarian film by Johann von Vásáry
- Mother (1955 film), a Soviet film by Mark Donskoy
- Mother (The Avengers), a 1960s British TV character
- Mother (1990 film), a Soviet film by Gleb Panfilov
- Mother (2016 Georgian film), a short film directed by Rati Tsiteladze
- Mother (2016 Estonian film), an Estonian film
- Mother (2017 Spanish film), a short film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- Mother, a 1935 Chinese film by Wen Yimin
- Mother (2014 film), a Japanese film by Kazuo Umezu
- Mother (Japanese TV series), a 2010 Japanese television drama
- Mother (Turkish TV series), a 2016 Turkish television drama
- Mother (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean TV series
- Mother (2009 film), a Korean film by Bong Joon-ho
- "Mother...", an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist
- Mother (1999 film), an Indian film starring Rekha
- Mother (1991 film), an Iranian film by Ali Hatami
- Ibunda, a 1986 Indonesian film by Teguh Karya, released internationally as Mother
- Mother (1985 film), a Korean film by Park Chul-soo
- Mother (1963 film), a Japanese film by Kaneto Shindo
- Mother, a 1956 Chinese film by Ling Zifeng
- Mother (1952 film), a Japanese film by Mikio Naruse
- Mother, a 1949 Chinese film by Shi Hui (director)
- Mother Mother (film), a 2014 Taiwanese television film
- Mother (video game), a 1989 role-playing video game
Mother (video game series)
- Mother (opera), an opera by the Czech composer Alois Hába
- Mother, opera by Valery Zhelobinsky 1938
- Mother, opera by Tikhon Khrennikov
- Mothers (music venue), in Birmingham, England
- Mother Mother, a Canadian rock band formerly called Mother
- The Mothers of Invention, also called The Mothers, a band associated with Frank Zappa
- Mothers (band), an American band from Athens, Georgia
- Mother (In This Moment album), 2020
- Mother (Natalie Maines album), 2013
- Mother (Susumu Yokota album), 2009
- Mother (Kubb album), 2005
- Mother (Luna Sea album), 1994
- Mother (Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka album), 1989
- Mother, an album by Gilli Smyth
- "Mother" (Axel Hirsoux song), 2014
- "Mother" (Blondie song), 2011
- "Mother" (Charlie Puth song), 2019
- "Mother" (Danzig song), 1988
- "Mother" (John Lennon song), 1970
- "Mother" (Luna Sea song), 1995
- "Mother" (Pink Floyd song), 1979
- "Mother", by the Afro Celt Sound System from Volume 5: Anatomic
- "Mother", by Chicago from Chicago III
- "Mother", by Era from Era
- "Mother", by Cyndi Lauper from Sisters of Avalon
- "Mother", by Florence + the Machine from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- "Mother", by James from Seven
- "Mother", by M-Factor
- "Mother", by Moloko from Things to Make and Do
- "Mother", by The Police from Synchronicity
- "Mother", by Puffy AmiYumi from Mother/Nehorina hahorina
- "Mother", by Ray Charles released as single in 2002
- "Mother", by Red House Painters from Red House Painters
- "Mother", by Tori Amos from Little Earthquakes
- "Mother", from the musical A Chorus Line
- "Mother", by Kacey Musgraves from Golden Hour
- "MOTHER", by Susumu Hirasawa from Technique of Relief
- "M-O-T-H-E-R", by Howard Johnson
- "Mother Mother" (song), by Tracy Bonham
- "Mother", by Blonde Redhead from Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
- Mother (energy drink)
- Mother's, a kosher food brand owned by The Manischewitz Company
- Fermentation starter, sometimes called a "mother", used to start the fermentation process in making various foods and drinks
"Mother" or "mother dough", a pre-ferment starter dough
- Kombucha mother, or SCOBY (for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast), occurring in the making of kombucha
- Mother (advertising agency), a British advertising agency
- Motherboard, the main printed circuit board found in microcomputers
- Mother, prototype of the British Mark I tank
- (Sometimes spelled "moth-er"), a person who studies moths
- Mommy (1995 film), starring Patty McCormack
- Mommy (2014 film), directed by Xavier Dolan
- Mommy 2: Mommy's Day, a 1997 film and sequel to the 1995 film Mommy
- Mommy Mommy, a 2007 documentary film
- The Mommies (comedy duo), an American female comedy duo
- The Mommies (TV series), an American sitcom aired from 1993 to 1995
- Mother, a female parent
- Mama-san, in Japan and East Asia, a woman in a position of authority
- Mamas, a name for female associates of the Hells Angels
- Mama, Russia, an urban-type settlement in Mamsko-Chuysky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
- Mama Airport, an airport there
- Mama (river), a tributary of the Vitim in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
- Mama Municipality, Yucatán, a municipality of Yucatán
- Mama, Yucatán, the municipal seat of the Mama Municipality, Yucatán
- The breast, the upper ventral region of a mammal’s torso; see:
Mamma (anatomy) of humans
- Mammary gland of female mammals
- Udder of female quadruped mammals
- Mamas K. Chandran (born 1981), Indian film director, known professionally as Mamas
- Big Bad Mama, stage name of Lynn Braxton, professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
- Gemma Teller Morrow, a character on The Sons of Anarchy television show, called "Mama" by her lover Nero Padilla
- Momma Lift, a character in the 1987 movie Throw Momma from the Train
- Thelma Harper or "Mama", a fictional character on The Carol Burnett Show and the sitcom Mama's Family
- Ma-ma (1976 film), a Soviet–French–Romanian musical film directed by Elisabeta Bostan
- Mamma (1982 film), a Swedish film directed by Suzanne Osten
- Mama (1990 film), a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan
- Mamá (2008 film), an Argentine short film directed by Andres Muschietti
- Mama (2013 film), a Spanish-Canadian supernatural horror directed by Andres Muschietti
- Ma Ma (2015 film), a Spanish film directed by Julio Medem
- Mama (TV series), a 1949–1957 American comedy–drama series
- Mama (2014 TV series), a 2014 South Korean television series
- Mamma (1908), a novel by Rhoda Broughton
- "Mama", a short story by Dorothy Allison in the collection Trash: Short Stories (1988)
- Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution, a 2015 anthology by Antonella Gambotto-Burke
- Mama (Brenda Fassie album) or the title song, 1994
- Mama (Nomeansno album), 1982
- Mama (Vitas album), or the title song, 2003
- Mama (EP) or the title song (see below), by EXO-K and EXO-M, 2012
- Mama, an EP by Adrian Eagle, 2019
- "Mama" (6ix9ine song), 2018
- "Mama" (Clean Bandit song), 2019
- "Mama" (Exo song), 2012
- "Mama" (Genesis song), 1983
- "Mama" (Jonas Blue song), 2017
- "Mama" (Spice Girls song), 1997
- "Mama" (Umberto Tozzi and Laura Branigan song), 1983
- "Mama" (Vladimir Arzumanyan song), Armenia entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
- "Mama (Ana Ahabak)", by Christina Stürmer, 2003
- "Mama (Loves a Crackhead)", by Plan B, 2006
- "Mamma" (song), a 1940 Italian song composed by Cesare Andrea Bixio and Bixio Cherubini; covered in English by David Whitfield (1955), Connie Francis (1960), and others
- "Mama", by Alabama Shakes from Boys & Girls, 2012
- "Mama", by Ant Wan, 2019
- "Mama", by Beth Hart from Screamin' for My Supper, 1999
- "Mama", by Brymo from Oṣó, 2018
- "Mama", by BTS from Wings, 2016
- "Mama", by Electric Light Orchestra from ELO 2, 1973
- "Mama", by Ella Eyre and Banx & Ranx, 2019
- "Mama", by Godsmack from IV, 2006
- "Mama", by Helen Reddy from Music, Music, 1976
- "Mama", by Il Divo from Il Divo, 2004
- "Mama", by The Kelly Family, 1999
- "Mama", by Kim Appleby from Kim Appleby, 1990
- "Mama", by The Lonely Island from Turtleneck & Chain, 2011
- "Mama", by Lyfe Jennings from I Still Believe, 2010
- "Mama", by My Chemical Romance from The Black Parade, 2006
- "Mama", by Oingo Boingo from Boi-ngo, 1986
- "Mama", by The Sugarcubes from Life's Too Good, 1988
- "Mama", by The-Dream from Love Hate, 2007
- "Mama", by Toto from Hydra, 1979
- "Mama", by Trina from The One, 2019
- "Mama", by Yemi Alade from Mama Africa, 2016
- MAMA Records, an American record label
- Mnet Asian Music Awards, an annual South Korean music awards show
- MTV Africa Music Awards, a continental music awards show
- Mama (magazine), a Swedish magazine
- Mama (1966), a stage musical by Mbongeni Ngema
- MAMA & Company, a UK live-venue and event management company
- MAMA Gallery, an art gallery in Los Angeles, California
- MAMMA (association), Modernist Architects of Morocco Memorial Association
- Murray Art Museum Albury, New South Wales, Australia
- Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI (MAMAS)
- Mama, a brand of instant noodles by Thai President Foods
- Mama (software), an object-oriented programming language
- Mamma.com, a metasearch engine operated by Copernic
- Mammes of Caesarea or Mammas (259–275), semi-legendary child-martyr of the 3rd century
- Mami (goddess) or Mama, a goddess in the Babylonian epic Atra-Hasis
- Ninhursag or Mamma, a Sumerian earth goddess
- Mama (wasp), a genus of wasps in the tribe Euphorini
- Mama and papa, in linguistics, the sequences of sounds corresponding to the words for "mother" and "father"
- Mama or sugar mama, a term for an age disparity in sexual relationships in which the older partner takes care of the younger, usually financially
- Lil Mama (born 1989), American hip hop recording artist
- Ma-Mha, a 2007 Thai film
- Mammatus cloud
- Mamo (song), by Anastasia Prikhodko, Russia's 2009 Eurovision entry
- Maternal insult or "yo mama joke"
- Momma, a syndicated comic strip
- Moms (film), a 2012 Russian anthology film
- Mom (TV series), an American situation comedy
- Moms (TV series), a Philippine television talk show
- Mom (Futurama), a character in the TV series Futurama
- Mom, a fictional character in the film Holes
- Moms (album), a 2012 recording from American group Menomena
- "Mom" (Bonnie Tyler song), covered by Garth Brooks
- "Mom" (Meghan Trainor song), 2016
- "Mom" (short story), a Thai short story by Kukrit Pramoj
- Mom, a fish in the American talk show FishCenter Live
- Mom (film), a 2017 Indian thriller drama film
- Mom Boucher (born 1953), Canadian convicted murderer and Hells Angels member
- Moms Mabley (1894–1975), African American comedian
- Arturo S. Mom (1893–?), Argentine screenwriter and film director
- Mom Chim Huy (born 1939), Cambodian politician
- Mark Mom (born 1974), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer
- Rady Mom (born 1970), Cambodian-born American politician
- Mom Soth, Cambodian film actor
- Minutes of meeting
- Mars Orbiter Mission, an Indian spacecraft
- Music for Our Mother Ocean, a series of 1990s alternative-rock charity albums
- City Municipality of Maribor (Slovene: Mestna občina Maribor)
- Management Object Model, in high-level architecture parlance
- Manufacturing operations management, a methodology for optimization of manufacturing operations
- Maternal Opiate Medical Support, a collaborative initiative of the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services
- Medicaid Obstetrical and Maternal Services, a program in New York State Department of Health
- Member of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, a Canadian award
- Message-oriented middleware, a category of communications software
- Methoxymethane, an ether
- Microsoft Operations Manager, a network management product
- Ministry of General Machine Building, a Russian agency that oversaw the development of spacecraft
- Modular Ocean Model, a numerical model for studying the global ocean climate system
- MOM Brands, formerly Malt-O-Meal
- Monmouth Ocean Middlesex Line, a proposed New Jersey Transit rail line
- Mothers Organized for Moral Stability, a 1960s socially conservative American organization
- Methoxymethyl, see also chloromethyl methyl ether
- Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, a research body in France, specializing in the ancient Mediterrean and Middle East
- Member of the National Order of Merit (Republic of Malta)
- Mac-on-Mac, software for running legacy Macintosh operating systems under Mac OS X
- Mall of Memphis, a defunct mall in Memphis, Tennessee
- Master of Magic, a 1994 fantasy turn-based strategy computer game
- Methods of Mayhem, an American rapcore band
- Boundary element method or Method of moments, a computational electromagnetics technique
- Milk of magnesia a suspension of magnesium hydroxide in water
- Minions of Mirth, an MMORPG by Prairie Games
- Ministry of Manpower (Singapore), a governmental organization in Singapore as well as other countries
- Ministry of Magic, the Government for the Magical community of Britain and Ireland in the series Harry Potter written by J. K. Rowling
- Ministry of Mayhem, a British children's television show
- Minutes of meeting, instant written record of a meeting or hearing
- Mouse on Mars, an electronic music duo from Germany
- Multiple of the median
- The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, an expansion for the computer game The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
- Mom (royal title), a Thai royal title
- mom, the abbreviation for the obsolete unit of length myriometre
- Maintenance Administrator
- Millennium (ecosystem) Assessment, Washington DC, USA
- milliAmpere
- Model (number) Advanced (number), Used to designate weapons (such as M4A1, M1A2, M16A2 etc.)
- Morocco, (504) ISO 2-letter country code
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