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BA

  • Bad Ass
  • 6-Benzylaminopurine
    6-Benzylaminopurine
    6-Benzylaminopurine, benzyl adenine or BAP is a first-generation synthetic cytokinin that elicits plant growth and development responses, setting blossoms and stimulating fruit richness by stimulating cell division...

    , plant hormone
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Bachelor of Arts
    A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

  • Bashkir language
    Bashkir language
    The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, and is the language of the Bashkirs. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan.-Speakers:...

    's ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
  • Basketball Australia
    Basketball Australia
    Basketball Australia is the governing and controlling body of basketball in Australia, responsible for the development and promotion of the sport at all levels.Formed in 1939 the organisation was constituted in 1946...

  • an abbreviation for Bathroom
    Bathroom
    A bathroom is a room for bathing in containing a bathtub and/or a shower and optionally a toilet, a sink/hand basin/wash basin and possibly also a bidet....

     in real estate advertising
  • Batting average
    Batting average
    Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

    , a statistic in cricket and baseball
  • Beer Advocate, a website and magazine dedicated to craft beer
  • Beerenauslese
    Beerenauslese
    Beerenauslese is a German language wine term for a dessert wine-style late harvest wine. Beerenauslese is a category in the Prädikatswein category of the Austrian and German wine classifications, and is a category above Auslese. Beerenauslese wines, often called "BA" for short, are usually made...

    , German late-harvest wine
  • Bell Atlantic, now Verizon Communications
    Verizon Communications
    Verizon Communications Inc. is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

  • Benzylamine
    Benzylamine
    Benzylamine is the chemical compound with the formula C6H5CH2NH2. It consists of a benzyl group, C6H5CH2, attached to an amine functional group...

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina
    Bibliotheca Alexandrina
    The Bibliotheca Alexandrina or Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah is a major library and cultural center located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria...

  • Blaqk Audio
    Blaqk Audio
    Blaqk Audio is an American electronic music duo formed by current AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget under Interscope Records. Their debut album CexCells was released on August 14, 2007 and reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200.-Origins:...

    , an American electronic project
  • The Boeing
    Boeing
    The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

     Company's stock symbol
  • British Association screw threads
    British Association screw threads
    British Association or BA screw threads are a largely obsolete set of small screw threads, the largest being 0BA at 6 mm diameter. They were, and to some extent still are, used for miniature instruments and modelling....

    , a largely obsolete standard for small screw threads
  • Brodmann area
    Brodmann area
    A Brodmann area is a region of the cerebral cortex defined based on its cytoarchitectonics, or structure and organization of cells.-History:...

  • Business analyst
    Business analyst
    A Business Analyst analyzes the organization and design of businesses, government departments, and non-profit organizations; BAs also assess business models and their integration with technology.-Levels:...

  • Business Area
  • Business angel or Angel investor
    Angel investor
    An angel investor or angel is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity...

  • Ford BA Falcon
    Ford BA Falcon
    The Ford BA Falcon is a full-size car, produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia between September 2002 and October 2005. The exterior styling of the BA was a substantial revision of that used for the preceding AU model. A new independent rear suspension setup was fitted to all sedan...

    , an Australian car
  • NZR BA class
    NZR Ba class
    The BA class was a class of steam locomotive built by the New Zealand Railways Department for use on New Zealand's national rail network. The first BA entered service in November 1911, with the last of the 11 class members introduced on 14 May 1913....

    , a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
  • Birds Anonymous
    Birds Anonymous
    Birds Anonymous is a 1957 Merrie Melodies animated short, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster, starring Tweety Bird, Sylvester and Sam...

    , an Oscar-winning animated Merrie Melodies short
  • Selskap med begrenset ansvar
    Selskap med begrenset ansvar
    Selskap med begrenset ansvar shortened to BA is a Norwegian term for a corporation comparable to a limited liability company. Meaning literally Company with limited liability, it is a type of corporate structure used in Norway for limited companies based on a co-operative structure.-Legal...

    , a type of Norwegian company with limited liability
  • Balanced Armature, a type of headphone technology
  • Buoyancy aid
    Buoyancy aid
    Buoyancy aids are a specialist form of personal flotation device used most commonly by kayakers, canoeists and dinghy sailors. They are designed as a flotation aid, rather than a life-saving device and have several key differences to other PFD's and life-jackets.Canoeing and kayaking buoyancy aids...

     - a personal flotation device.

Organizations

  • Bangladesh Army
    Bangladesh Army
    The Bangladesh Army is the land forces branch and the largest of the three uniformed service of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Army is to provide necessary forces and capabilities in support of Bangladesh's security and defense strategies including defense of the nation's...

  • Bank of America
    Bank of America
    Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

  • Birds Australia
    Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
    The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also known as Birds Australia, was founded in 1901 to promote the study and conservation of the native bird species of Australia and adjacent regions. This makes it Australia's oldest national birding association. It is also Australia's largest...

  • Bloque por Asturies, a regional political party in Asturias
    Asturias
    The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

    , Spain
  • Bnei Akiva
    Bnei Akiva
    Bnei Akiva is the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, with over 125,000 members in 37 countries. It was established in Mandate Palestine in 1929.-History:...

    , a Jewish youth movement
  • Bombardier Aerospace
    Bombardier Aerospace
    Bombardier Aerospace is a division of Bombardier Inc. and is the third-largest airplane manufacturer in the world. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.- History :...

  • Bright Antenna
    Bright Antenna
    Bright Antenna is a record label founded in 2007 and based in Oakland, California. One of the founders is author and filmmaker Tiffanie DeBartolo...

    , an Oakland, California
    Oakland, California
    Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

     record label.
  • British Airways
    British Airways
    British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. British Airways is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations...

    , its IATA airline designator
  • British Army
    British Army
    The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

  • British Association for the Advancement of Science
    British Association for the Advancement of Science
    frame|right|"The BA" logoThe British Association for the Advancement of Science or the British Science Association, formerly known as the BA, is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating interaction between...

  • Brussels Airlines
    Brussels Airlines
    Brussels Airlines is a flag carrier airline headquartered in the b.house on the grounds of Brussels Airport and in Diegem, Machelen, Belgium and a subsidiary of Lufthansa. It is the largest airline based in Belgium, operating to over 65 destinations in 20 European countries as well as long-haul...

  • Burma Army (disambiguation)

People

  • B. A. Baracus
    B. A. Baracus
    Sergeant Bosco Albert "B. A." Baracus is a fictional character in the 1980s action/adventure television series The A-Team, played by Mr. T. B. A. Baracus appeared on The A-Team from the series beginning in 1983 until its cancellation in 1987. He is arguably the breakout character of the series...

    , a character from the television series The A-Team and the 2010 film based on the series
  • Demba Ba
    Demba Ba
    Demba Ba is a French-born Senegalese footballer who plays as a striker for Newcastle United in the Premier League, and for the Senegal national team.-Early life:Ba was born in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, and was the sixth child of seven...

    , a Senegalese footballer for Newcastle United
  • Ibrahim Ba
    Ibrahim Ba
    Ibrahim "Ibou" Ba is a Senegalese-born professional French football player of the 1990s and 2000s whose career as a right midfielder lasted from 1991 to 2008...

    , a former football player

Places

  • The Bahamas
    The Bahamas
    The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

    ' WMO country code
  • Bahia
    Bahia
    Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...

    , a Brazilian state
  • Bahrain
    Bahrain
    ' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

    's FIPS 10-4 country code
  • Barber County, Kansas
    Barber County, Kansas
    Barber County is a county located in South Central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 4,861. Its county seat and most populous city is Medicine Lodge...

    ' state county code
  • Bath, Somerset's UK postal area (first 2 letters of the postcode)
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

    's ISO 2-letter country code
    • .ba
      .ba
      .ba is the Internet country code top-level domain for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administered by the University Teleinformation Center.It has the following second-level domains:*.web.ba: *.org.ba: Non-profit organizations...

      , the top-level domain for Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Boston and Albany Railroad
    Boston and Albany Railroad
    The Boston and Albany Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system, Conrail and CSX. The line is used by CSX for freight...

    's reporting mark
  • Bratislava
    Bratislava
    Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

    , Slovakia
  • Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
    Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
    Broken Arrow is a city located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, primarily in Tulsa County but also with a small section of the city in western Wagoner County. It is the largest suburb of Tulsa. According to the 2010 US Census, Broken Arrow has a population of 98,850 residents...

    , a city in northeast Oklahoma
  • Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

    , Argentina
  • Province of Bari
    Province of Bari
    The Province of Bari is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Bari.It has an area of 5,138 km², and a total population of 1,594,109 . There are 48 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Bari...

    's ISO 3166-2:IT code
  • San Francisco Bay Area
    San Francisco Bay Area
    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

     or just "Bay Area"
  • Ba, Tha Tum - Surin Province, Thailand

Ba

  • Barium
    Barium
    Barium is a chemical element with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56. It is the fifth element in Group 2, a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal. Barium is never found in nature in its pure form due to its reactivity with air. Its oxide is historically known as baryta but it reacts with...

    , chemical symbol Ba
  • Ba Solem, a genus of land snails in the family Charopidae
    Charopidae
    Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails , terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea .- Subfamilies and genera :The family Charopidae consists of the following subfamilies:* Charopinae Hutton, 1884 - synonyms:...

  • barye
    Barye
    The barye , or sometimes barad, barrie, bary, baryd, baryed, or barie, is the centimetre-gram-second unit of pressure. It is equal to 1 dyne per square centimetre....

    , the cgs unit of pressure
  • Ba (surname)
    Ba (surname)
    Ba, Bâ and Bah are potentially related West African surnames.Notable people who share these surnames are listed below separately for each surname along with information relevant to the geographic and historical distribution of the surnames...

  • Ba (given name)
    Ba (given name)
    Ba is a given name shared by several notable people. Considered here is the 'Ba' given name prevalent in Myanmar of the 20th Century, as well as the ancient Chinese given names 跋, 霸, and 巴 which are both translated as the English 'Ba'.-Given name instances:Representative biographical instances...

  • Ba F.C.
    Ba F.C.
    Ba F.C. is a Fijian association football team playing in the premier division of the Fiji Football Association competitions. It is based in Ba. They are nicknamed Men in Black. Their home stadium is Govind Park...

  • Ba game
    Ba game
    Ba game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, perhaps most notably in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year....


Places

  • Ba (town)
    Ba (town)
    Ba is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometres from Lautoka and 62 kilometres from Nadi, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. Covering an area of 327 square kilometres, it had a population of 14,596 at the 1996 census. The town is built on the banks of the Ba River, after which it is...

    , a town in Fiji
    • Ba District, Fiji
      Ba District, Fiji
      Ba is a district situation on the North Western part of the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The name Ba is also used for a province, a tikina , a town and a river. Ba district comprises the areas surrounding Ba Town and includes the Fijian administrative tikinas of Ba and Magodro. Ba district is in...

      , an administrative district in Fiji
    • Ba Province
      Ba Province
      Ba is a province of Fiji, occupying the north-western sector of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. It is one of fourteen Provinces in the nation of Fiji, and one of eight based in Viti Levu. It is Fiji's most populous Province, with a population of 231,760 - more than a quarter of the nation's...

      , Fiji
    • Ba (Open Constituency, Fiji)
      Ba (Open Constituency, Fiji)
      Ba Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage . Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006...

    • Ba River (Fiji)
      Ba River (Fiji)
      The Ba River is located in the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The town of Ba is built on its banks. The Rarawai Sugar Mill is located a kilometer upstream on the bank of the Ba River and makes use of the river water in its boilers....

  • The State of Ba
    Ba (state)
    Ba was an ancient state in eastern Sichuan, China. Its original capital was Yicheng , Hubei. Ba was conquered by Qin in 316 BC. The modern ethnic minority Tujia people trace some of their origins back to the Ba people....

    , a Chinese vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1045 - 256 BCE)
  • Ba River (China)
    Ba River (China)
    The Ba River is a river in Tibet and the largest tributary of the Nyang River. It is the source of the Dadie Waterfall.-External links:*...

  • Ba (Ljig)
    Ba (Ljig)
    Ba is a village in the municipality of Ljig in Central Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 605 people. It lies under the Suvobor mountain....

    , village in Serbia

In Egyptian mythology

  • Ba (Egyptian soul), one part of the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul

See also

  • Ya ba, tablets containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine
  • BAA
    BAA
    BAA may stand for:*Batting average against in Major League Baseball*BAA Ground, a now defunct cricket venue in Rangoon, Burma*BAA Limited Ferrovial, formerly BAA plc, originally known as the British Airports Authority...

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