Sa, SA, S.A. or s.a. may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment Music Initialism for "soprano and alto", voice types for which a piece of music is written SA (Samurai Attack), a Japanese punk rock band SA Martinez, a vocalist and DJ for the band 311 Soziedad Alkoholika, a Spanish punk rock band SA, a 2018 album by Jonathan Richman Strike Anywhere, a hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia
Other media Sa (film), a 2016 Indian film S.A (manga), a manga series by Maki Minami Something Awful, a comedy website Star Awards, an annual Singaporean television award ceremony Subterranean Animism, a video game from the Touhou series by ZUN Siragadikka Aasai (TV series), an Indian TV series
Language and writing Characters and glyphs Sa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign Sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection" Sa (Javanese) (ꦱ), a character in the Javanese script Sa (kana) (さ and サ), characters (kana) in the two Japanese syllabaries
Languages Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), an Indo-Aryan language, and the liturgical language of Hinduism
Businesses and organizations
Types of corporation S.A. (corporation) () a type of joint-stock company in civil law countries ("Joint-stock company" in Polish)
Military and paramilitary organizations Soviet Army, army of the Soviet Union (SA), a paramilitary wing of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), also known as the Brownshirts
Political organisations Socialist Action (disambiguation), several organisations Socialist Alliance (Australia), a Socialist political party Socialist Alternative (Australia), a Marxist political organisation
Other businesses and organizations System Architect, an enterprise architecture product San Antonio Spurs, a basketball team in the U.S. National Basketball Association The Salvation Army, an international church and charity Sexaholics Anonymous, a sex-addiction recovery group based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Scouting America, main scouting movement in the US, formerly Boy Scouts of America Shooting Australia, governing body for target shooting sports in Australia Smokers Anonymous South African Airways (IATA airline designator: SA) Sports Authority, a defunct U.S. sporting goods retailer Success Academy Charter Schools, term commonly abbreviated to 'Success Academy'
Job titles Seaman apprentice, a U.S. Navy and Coast Guard rank Software architect Special agent, a position usually held by investigative officers within certain law enforcement agencies in the US System administrator, in information technology Systems analyst, in information technology
Places SA postcode area, a group of postal districts near Swansea, Wales, UK Province of Salerno, Italy, by vehicle registration plate code Sakha Republic, a federal Russian republic Saline County, Kansas, U.S. San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Sarajevo (official city abbreviation) Saudi Arabia (two-letter country code) South Asia South Africa South America South Australia
Science, technology, and mathematics Biology and medicine Salicylic acid, a plant hormone Spontaneous abortion Sustained action, a longer-acting form of a medication Sense of agency
Computing and telecommunications
.sa, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saudi Arabia Security association, in the IPsec networking protocol Selective availability, a mechanism for degrading the precision of the civilian GPS network Simulated annealing, an optimisation technique Software architecture Microsoft Software Assurance Something Awful, American comedy website founded in 1999 Spatial architecture, a computer architecture parallelizing kernels across many processing elements Standalone mode, in 5G cellular telecoms; see 5G NR § Standalone mode Structured analysis, a software engineering technique Suffix array, a sorted array of all suffixes of a string System architecture Systems analysis System agent
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics Sa (Islamic measure), Arabic measure of volume Samarium (former chemical symbol: Sa), a rare earth metal Single action, a type of firearm trigger Situation awareness, a component of aviation safety and other socio-technical systems Spectral acceleration, in seismology and earthquake engineering Superabundant number, a type of number (mathematical concept) Surface area Unbarred spiral galaxy Short axis, in single-photon emission computed tomography
Other uses Sa (Mandaeism), a type of Mandaean sacramental bread that is rolled up , Latin term for 'without year' used in bibliographies to indicate items which do not record the year of publication (s.a. or sa), Latin term for 'under the year' in annals which record by year Simple asphyxiant, encoded on NFPA 704 as SA Secrecy agreement, a legal contract for confidentiality Sex appeal, attraction on the basis of sexual desire Sexual assault, the intentional act of sexually touching another person without their consent Sexual abuse, act of abusing someone sexually The ShareAlike condition of Creative Commons licenses Second Amendment (disambiguation) to the constitutions of several sovereign states and subnational entities Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, the most common meaning of "Second Amendment" Single adult (LDS Church), a designation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for unmarried individuals 18 and older; sometimes used specifically to refer to unmarried individuals over 30 San Andreas (disambiguation) MG SA, a sporting saloon Saturday
See also S+A, defunct Philippine TV network Sá, a Portuguese surname Sa (萨), a rare Chinese surname of Semu origin (see 雁门萨氏) Semi-automatic (disambiguation)