SA
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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
- Sa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
 - sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection"
 - Sa (kana) (さ and サ), characters (kana) in the two Japanese syllabaries
 - 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' 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
 - Sa (Javanese) (ꦱ), a character in the Javanese script
 
Businesses and organizations
Corporations generally
- 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 Alliance (England), a political party in England
 - 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 United States
 - 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'
 
Places
- Vehicle registration plate for the province of Salerno, Italy
 - SA postcode area, a group of postal districts near Swansea, Wales, UK
 - 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
 - Surface area
 - 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 architect
 - Software architecture
 - Microsoft Software Assurance
 - 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 administrator
 - System architecture
 - Systems analysis
 - Systems analyst
 - 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)
 - Unbarred spiral galaxy
 - Short axis, in single-photon emission computed tomography
 - Surface area
 
Other uses
- Sa (Mandaeism), a type of Mandaean sacramental bread that is rolled up
 - Simple asphyxiant, encoded on NFPA 704 as SA
 - Seaman apprentice, a U.S. Navy and Coast Guard rank
 - 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
 - Share-alike, a term used in Creative Commons licensing
 - Second Amendment 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
 - Special agent, a position usually held by investigative officers within certain law enforcement agencies in the United States
 - San Andreas (disambiguation)
 - MG SA, a sporting saloon
 
See also
- S+A, defunct Philippine TV network
 - Sá, a Portuguese surname
 - Sa (萨), a rare Chinese surname of Semu origin (see 雁门萨氏)
 - Semi-automatic (disambiguation)
 - All pages with titles containing sa