MA


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Ma, MA, or mA may refer to:

Academia

Arts and entertainment

Music

Fictional characters

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Businesses and organizations

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
  • 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

Mythology

Places

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry

Health and medicine

Mathematics

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, Mya, or Ma, meaning "million years ago"; (NB: broadly equivalent to "Megaannum (Ma)", see above)

Other uses in science and technology

Other uses

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