Sha or SHA may refer to:

Places

Sha County Shaxian District (), formerly Sha County, is a District of Sanming, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Shaxian District is the hometown of Shaxian delicacies, which are considered part of the food heritage of China. Transportation Shax ...

, Fujian, China * Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, ( IATA code) *

Sia, Cyprus Sia or Sha ( el, Σια []; tr, Sha) is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. It is located 4 km south of Alampra. References

Communities in Nicosia District {{cyprus-geo-stub ...

, also spelled ''Sha'' *

Sagamihara Housing Area Sagamihara Housing Area (known as SHA) is an area of land designated as living space for United States Military personnel and Department of the Army Civilians in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Married American soldiers who are stationed a ...

, an army installation in Japan * Vehicle registration plates in the district

Schwäbisch Hall Schwäbisch Hall (; "Swabian Hall"; from 1802 until 1934 and colloquially: ''Hall'' ) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg located in the valley of the Kocher river, the longest tributary (together with its headwater Lein) of the ...

and the town

, Germany

People and language

Sha (surname) Sha is the Standard Chinese, Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is listed 387th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is th ...

* Sha (singer) (born 1979), German singer *

Sha Fei Sha Fei (; May 5, 1912 – March 4, 1950) was a Chinese photojournalist and war photographer best known for his work with the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Born Situ Chuan (司徒传), he took the pseudo ...

(1912–1950), Chinese photojournalist * Sha language * Sha (Cyrillic) (Ш, ш), a Cyrillic letter

Government and organizations

Maryland State Highway Administration The Maryland State Highway Administration (abbreviated MDOT SHA or simply SHA) is the state transportation business unit responsible for maintaining Maryland's numbered highways outside Baltimore City. Formed originally under authority of the Ge ...

Strategic health authorities Strategic health authorities (SHA) were part of the structure of the National Health Service (England), National Health Service in England between 2002 and 2013. Each SHA was responsible for managing performance, enacting directives and implementin ...

, England * Saskatchewan Hockey Association, now known as

Hockey Saskatchewan Hockey Saskatchewan is the governing body of all ice hockey in Saskatchewan. Hockey Saskatchewan is a branch of Hockey Canada. Hockey Saskatchewan was established as the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association in 1906, and was later known as the ...

* Secondary Heads Association, now the Association of School and College Leaders * Society for Historical Archaeology * The

Socialist Health Association The Socialist Health Association (SHA, called the Socialist Medical Association before May 1981) is a socialist medical association based in the United Kingdom. It is affiliated to the Labour Party as a socialist society. History The Social ...

, a left-wing English medical association affiliated with the Labour Party.

History

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Scriptores Historiae Augustae The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

Science and technology

Secure Hash Algorithms The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), including: *SHA-0: A retronym applied to the ...

, SHA-0 to SHA-3 * Shorthand abstraction, a term presented in the 2007 book ''

What Is Intelligence? ''What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect'' is a book by psychologist James R. Flynn which outlines his model for an explanation of the eponymous Flynn effect. The book summarizes much of the work of Flynn in this area, as well as that o ...

'' by James R. Flynn *

Sidereal hour angle In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the angle between two planes: one containing Earth's axis and the zenith (the '' meridian plane''), and the other containing Earth's axis and a given point of interest (the ''hour circle ...

, in astronomy *

Intel SHA extensions Intel SHA Extensions are a set of extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture which support hardware acceleration of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) family. It was introduced in 2013. There are seven new SSE-based instructions, four supporting ...

* Measure of material hardness using a Shore A type

Shore durometer The Shore durometer is a device for measuring the hardness of a material, typically of polymers. Higher numbers on the scale indicate a greater resistance to indentation and thus harder materials. Lower numbers indicate less resistance and soft ...

Other uses

Sha (animal) In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or ''sha'', is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast. Unlike other totem ...

, the totemic animal of the Egyptian god Set * ''Sha'' (comics), a French comic by Pat Mills *

Shareholders' agreement A shareholders' agreement (sometimes referred to in the U.S. as a stockholders' agreement) (SHA) is an agreement amongst the shareholders or members of a company. In practical effect, it is analogous to a partnership agreement. It can be said that ...