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

For job titles, see § Job titles.

• .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
• 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

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