VA may be an abbreviation for:
- Validation Authority, in Public key infrastructure
Public Key Infrastructure is the mechanism—the organization, people, and machinery—needed to support public key cryptography....
- Value added
In economics, the difference between cost of materials and labor to produce a product, and the sale price of a product is the value added. In national accounts used in macroeconomics, it refers to the contribution of the factors of production, i.e., land, labor, and capital goods, to raising the...
, economic term meaning additional value of the product created on a given stage of production, marketing or other involved process
- Various Artists, a term used in the recording industry when multiple artists are featured in a work
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors....
, a department of the United States government
- Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Swedish scientific organisation
- Ventral anterior nucleus
-Inputs and outputs:The ventral anterior nucleus receives neuronal inputs from the basal ganglia which includes the substantia nigra and the globus pallidus. It also has inputs from the cerebellum. It sends out neuronal input to the supplementary motor cortex....
, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
- Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs that implements the medical assistance program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA outpatient clinics, hospitals, medical centers and longterm healthcare...
, better abbreviated as "VHA", a sub-department of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs
- Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as V&A
- Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" because it is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents. The geography and climate of the state are shaped by the Blue...
, United States postal abbreviation
- Visual acuity
Visual acuity is acuteness or clearness of vision, especially form vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain....
, a quantitative measure of visual perception
- Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as traditional plastic arts , modern visual arts , and design and crafts...
- Virtual Adepts, a "Tradition" in the White Wolf, Inc.
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VA may be an abbreviation for:
- Validation Authority, in Public key infrastructure
Public Key Infrastructure is the mechanism—the organization, people, and machinery—needed to support public key cryptography....
- Value added
In economics, the difference between cost of materials and labor to produce a product, and the sale price of a product is the value added. In national accounts used in macroeconomics, it refers to the contribution of the factors of production, i.e., land, labor, and capital goods, to raising the...
, economic term meaning additional value of the product created on a given stage of production, marketing or other involved process
- Various Artists, a term used in the recording industry when multiple artists are featured in a work
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors....
, a department of the United States government
- Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Swedish scientific organisation
- Ventral anterior nucleus
-Inputs and outputs:The ventral anterior nucleus receives neuronal inputs from the basal ganglia which includes the substantia nigra and the globus pallidus. It also has inputs from the cerebellum. It sends out neuronal input to the supplementary motor cortex....
, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
- Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs that implements the medical assistance program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA outpatient clinics, hospitals, medical centers and longterm healthcare...
, better abbreviated as "VHA", a sub-department of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs
- Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as V&A
- Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" because it is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents. The geography and climate of the state are shaped by the Blue...
, United States postal abbreviation
- Visual acuity
Visual acuity is acuteness or clearness of vision, especially form vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain....
, a quantitative measure of visual perception
- Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as traditional plastic arts , modern visual arts , and design and crafts...
- Virtual Adepts, a "Tradition" in the White Wolf, Inc. role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
- Virtual airline
A virtual airline is a dedicated hobby organization that uses flight simulation to model the operations of an airline. Virtual airlines generally have a presence on the Internet, similar to a real airline...
- Virtual assistant
Common modes of communication and data delivery include the Internet, e-mail and phonecall conferences, online work spaces, and fax machine. Professionals in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is standard...
a independent contractor providing administrative, technical, or sometimes creative assistance to clients via the internet
- Virgin Atlantic, a successful worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group.
- Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate sound of analog synthesisers using DSP techniques.
- Violent Apathy
Violent Apathy is a U.S. hardcore band that formed in March 1981 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and sparked the Kalamazoo hardcore scene. The original band was three high school friends from Jackson, Michigan along with Eliot Rachman, another WMU student who hailed from East...
, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
- Voice actor, an actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media
- Vozvrashaemiy Apparat, a reentry capsule of TKS Spacecraft
TKS spacecraft was designed by Vladimir Chelomei as a manned spacecraft launched with Proton rocket alternative to the Soyuz spacecraft to supply the military Almaz space station. Development began in 1965, but by the time the first flight articles were ready the Almaz programme had been abandoned...
- V Australia Airlines
Virgin Blue International Airlines Pty Ltd, trading as V Australia, is a long haul international airline owned by Virgin Blue Holdings Limited...
, IATA airline designator
- Volt-ampere
A volt-ampere, in electrical terms, is the amount of power in an alternating current circuit equal to a peak current flow of one ampere at an peak electromotive force of one volt. It is related to Watts/0.7 for non-reactive circuits...
, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, dimensionally equivalent to the watt
- Vulnerability assessment
A vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the vulnerabilities in a system. Examples of systems for which vulnerability assessments are performed for include, but are not limited to, nuclear power plants, information technology systems, energy supply...
, is the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system.
VA or
Va may also mean:
- Va people
The Va nationality lives mainly in compact communities in the Ximeng , Cangyuan, Menglian , Gengma , Lincang , Shuangjiang , Zhenkang and Yongde counties in southwestern Yunnan Province of China...
, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
- VA Software (formerly "VA Linux Systems"), provider of the SourceForge Development Intelligence application
- Amateur Radio Callsign Prefix for Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"
- Postnominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was a British Royal Family Order instituted in on 10 February 1862 by Queen Victoria, and enlarged on 10 October 1864; 15 November 1865; and 15 March 1880. No awards were made after the death of Queen Victoria....
- air speed in aviation associated with design maneuvering speed (Official abbreviation in FAR and CS requirements).