VA, Va and variants may refer to:
Places
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Vä, Sweden, a village
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Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA)
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Virginia, United States postal abbreviation
Businesses and organizations
Businesses
* VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems") a company that eventually became
Geeknet
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VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
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Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
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Virgin Australia (IATA code since 2011)
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V Australia
V Australia was a long-haul international airline owned by Virgin Australia Holdings that commenced operating on 27 February 2009. As part of a rebranding of all of Virgin Australia Holdings' subsidiaries, on 7 December 2011 it was subsumed in ...
(IATA code 2009–2011)
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Viasa (IATA code 1960–1997)
Organizations
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United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a department of the US government
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VA (Public & Science), Swedish scientific organisation
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Vermont Academy, boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
* VA, post nominal letters of the
Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
* VA, nickname for the French association football club
Valenciennes FC
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Virtual airline (hobby), flight simulation hobby organization
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Voluntary aided school, type of state-funded school in England and Wales
Media and entertainment
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''Va'' (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie
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Vampire Academy'', series of 6 best-selling books
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Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
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Violent Apathy
Violent Apathy is an American hardcore band that formed in March 1981 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, and sparked the Kalamazoo hardcore scene. The original band was three high school friends from Jackson, M ...
, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
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Virtual Adepts
''Mage: The Ascension'' is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio in 1993. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic. Magic in ''Mag ...
, a "tradition" in the role-playing game ''
Mage: The Ascension
''Mage: The Ascension'' is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio in 1993. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic. Magic in ''Ma ...
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Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate analog synthesizers
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Visual arts
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Voice actor, actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
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Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug
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Vascular anomaly, in medicine
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Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
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Ventricular arrhythmia
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Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception
Computing and systems
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.va
.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Vatican City State. It is administered by the Vatican Internet Service.
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Background
The .va top-level domain was created in 1995 by Archbishop John Patrick Foley of th ...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City
* Validation Authority, in
public key infrastructure
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facilit ...
* Virtual address, a computer memory location in
virtual address space
* Vertical alignment, a technology used in a modern
liquid-crystal display
A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display
A flat-panel display (FPD) is an electronic display used to display visual content such as text or images. It is present in consumer, medical, transportation, and industrial equipmen ...
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Visual analytics, business intelligence visualization tools
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Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system
Mathematics and physics
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Vertex algebra
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Vertical asymptote, in mathematics
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Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, equivalent to the watt
Space and aviation
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A, the design
maneuvering speed of an aircraft
* Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or
VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle
Other uses
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Various Artists, used in the description of a music album which contains tracks that have been compiled from several different artists
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Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
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Value added, in economics
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Variable annuity, a financial instrument
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Vice admiral, a military rank
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Virtual assistant, an independent contractor providing assistance to clients via the internet
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Volatile acidity or vinegar taint, high acetic acidity in wine
* Amateur radio callsign prefix for
Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"
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