SA

SA may refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

• SA (Samurai Attack), a Japanese punk rock band
• SA Martinez, a vocalist and DJ for 311
• Soziedad Alkoholika, a Spanish punk rock band

Other

• S · A: Special A, a manga series by Maki Minami
• Something Awful, a comedy website

Computing, networking and communications

• Microsoft Software Assurance
• Security association in the IPsec networking protocol
• Selective availability, a mechanism for degrading the precision of the civilian GPS network
• Simulated annealing, optimisation technique
• Software architecture, Software architect
• Structured analysis, software engineering technique
• Systems analysis，Systems analyst

Mathematics, science, engineering, medicine

• Salicylic acid, a plant hormone
• Short axis in single-photon emission computed tomography
• Single action, a type of firearm trigger
• Spectral acceleration in seismology and earthquake engineering
• Spontaneous abortion
• Superabundant number, type of number (mathematical concept)
• Sustained action, a longer-acting form of a medication
• Unbarred spiral galaxy

Organizations

• S.A. (corporation), a type of corporation in various countries

Military and paramilitary organisations and ranks

• Seaman apprentice, US navy and coastguard rank
• Sherut Avir, the air branch of the Haganah
• Soviet Army (Советская Армия, Sovetskaya Armiya)
• Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

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

• Sexaholics Anonymous, a sex-addiction recovery group based on the 12-steps of AA
• Success Academy Charter Schools, term commonly abbreviated to 'Success Academy'

Places

• SA postcode area, a group of postal districts in Wales
• Saline County, Kansas' standard abbreviation
• San Antonio, Texas
• Sarajevo's official city abbreviation
• Saudi Arabia's two-letter country code
  • .sa, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saudi Arabia
• South Africa
• South America
• South Australia's official state abbreviation and postcode

Other uses

• Share-alike, a term used in Creative Commons
• Situation awareness, a component of aviation safety and other socio-technical systems
• South African Airways' IATA code

See also

• Sa (disambiguation)