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

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== Academia ==
* [[Master of Arts]], a degree award
* [[Marin Academy]], a high school in San Rafael, California
* [[Menlo-Atherton High School]], a public high school in Atherton, California
* [[Minnehaha Academy]], a private high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

== Arts and entertainment ==
=== Music ===
* [[Ma (Anjan Dutt album)|''Ma'' (Anjan Dutt album)]] (1998)
* [[Ma (Rare Earth album)|''Ma'' (Rare Earth album)]] (1973)
* [[Ma (Sagarika album)|''Ma'' (Sagarika album)]] (1998)
* [[Ma (Zubeen Garg album)|''Ma'' (Zubeen Garg album)]] (2019)
* ''[[Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me)]]'', 1974 debut album of Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni
* [[Massive Attack]], a British trip hop band
* In music instructions, "but", especially in the phrase ''ma non troppo'' (see [[Glossary of musical terminology#M]])
* In [[tonic sol-fa]], a flattened me
* [[Encyclopaedia Metallum]]: The Metal Archives, a website devoted to heavy metal bands

=== Fictional characters ===
* [[Ma (The Lion King)|Ma (''The Lion King'')]], a main character in the animated film ''Lion King 1½''
* [[Ma Beagle]], in the Donald Duck universe
* [[Ma Hunkel]], a DC Comics character
* [[Ma and Pa Kettle|Ma Kettle]], a 1940s and 1950s comic film character
* The protagonist of ''[[Ma Perkins]]'', an American radio soap opera which aired from 1932 to 1960
* The Ma family, in the 2014 South Korean television series ''[[4 Legendary Witches]]''

=== Other uses in arts and entertainment ===
* [[Ma (2019 film)|''Ma'' (2019 film)]], a horror film starring Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans
* [[Ma (negative space)]], a word of Japanese origin used in art and design
* [[Memory Alpha]], a ''Star Trek''-oriented wiki
* [[Miss America]], a beauty pageant, and the title awarded at said pageant
* [[MA (journal)|''MA'' (journal)]], a Hungarian art magazine

== Businesses and organizations ==
* [[Malév Hungarian Airlines]] (IATA designator: MA)
* [[Mastercard]] (NYSE stock symbol: MA)
* Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as [[FlyMontserrat]]
* [[Motorcycling Australia]]
* [[Motorsport Australia]]
* [[Orange Movement]] (''Movimento Arancione''), an Italian political party
* [[Market America]], a product brokerage and internet marketing company
* [[Museums Association]], UK
* Musicians Australia, a trade union run by the [[Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance]]

== People ==
* Ma, an informal synonym for [[mother]]
* [[Ma (surname)]] (马/馬), a common Chinese family name
*[[Ma (surname 麻)]], a less common Chinese surname
* [[Ma Barker]] (1873–1935), American criminal and mother of criminals
* [[Ma Beland]] (1870–1952), American drug trafficker
* [[Miriam A. Ferguson]] (1875–1961), nicknamed "Ma", American politician, twice governor of Texas and first female governor of Texas
* [[Harriet Pullen]] (1860–1947), American entrepreneur and hotelier nicknamed "Ma"
* [[Ma Rainey]], stage name of early American blues singer Gertrude Pridgett (1886–1939)
* [[Ma Anand Sheela]], Osho movement leader convicted of multiple attempted murders
* [[Spanish naming customs#María and José|Maria]] (Mª or Ma.), according to Spanish naming customs
* [[Mạ people]], a Vietnamese ethnic group
* [[Meshwesh]] (Ma), an ancient Libyan (i.e., Berber) tribe from Cyrenaica

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

== Mythology ==
* [[Ma (Sumerian mythology)]], 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

== Places ==
* [[Ma River]], a river in Vietnam and Laos
* [[Ma, Tibet]], a village and township in Tibet
* [[Morocco]] (ISO 3166-1 country code)
** [[.ma]], the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco
* [[FIPS 10-4]] country code of [[Madagascar]]
* [[Maranhão]], a state of Brazil, postal code MA
* [[Maluku (province)]], a province of Indonesia (ISO 3166-2:ID subdivisions)
* [[Massachusetts]], state abbreviation MA, one of the United States

== Science, technology, and mathematics ==
=== Chemistry ===
* [[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 (CH<sub>3</sub>NH<sub>3</sub>), e.g., in [[methylammonium lead halide]]s

=== Health and medicine ===
* [[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

=== Mathematics ===
* [[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

=== Measurements ===
* [[Mach number]] (Ma), a measure of speed compared to the speed of sound
* [[Megaampere]] (MA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
* [[Megaannum]] (Ma), one million years
* [[Milliampere]] (mA), a multiple of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere
* [[myr#Debate|Myr]], [[Mya (unit)|Mya]], or Ma, meaning "million years ago"; (NB: broadly equivalent to "Megaannum (Ma)", see above)

=== Other uses in science and technology ===
* [[Mechanical advantage]] (MA), mechanical multiplier of input force
* [[Mechanical alloying]] (MA), a technique to produce alloys
* [[Marketing automation]] (MA), technology designed to automate marketing-related tasks
* Ma, a type of interface in an [[IP Multimedia Subsystem#Interfaces description|IP Multimedia Subsystem]] <!--pipe for section specification only-->
* [[Ford MA]], a 2002 concept car
* [[Nissan MA engine]], an automotive engine introduced in 1982

== Other uses ==
* [[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]]
* [[Motorsport Australia]]

== See also ==
* "Mature audience", a U.S. [[television rating system]] category, abbreviated TV-MA
* [[Maa (disambiguation)]]

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