Organizations

• S.A. (corporation)
  S.A. (corporation)
  S.A. designates a particular type of corporation in various countries, mostly those employing the civil law. It originated in Spain during the 16th century. Depending on language, the abbreviation stands for various phrases meaning anonymous society, anonymous company, anonymous partnership, or...
  
  , a type of corporation in various countries
• Salvation Army
  Salvation Army
  The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....
  
  , a Christian denomination founded by William Booth
• Sewickley Academy
  Sewickley Academy
  Sewickley Academy is a private coeducational college preparatory day school located in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Located approximately 12 miles north of Pittsburgh, Sewickley Academy is the oldest independent school in the Pittsburgh area dating back to 1838...
  
  , a private school in the United States
• Sexaholics Anonymous
  Sexaholics Anonymous
  Sexaholics Anonymous is one of several twelve-step programs for hypersexuality based on the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. SA takes its place among various 12-step groups that seek recovery from sexual addiction: Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Sexual...
  
  , a sex-addiction recovery group based on the 12-steps of AA
• Sherut Avir
  Sherut Avir
  The Sherut Avir was the air force of the Haganah and the forerunner of the Israeli Air Force.-Founding:The Sherut Avir was founded in November 1947, just two weeks prior to the passing of the 1947 UN Partition Plan which proposed the division of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state.It was at...
  
  , the air branch of the Haganah
• Socialist Action
  Socialist Action
  Socialist Action may refer to:*Socialist Action , a Trotskyist political party in the United States*Socialist Action , a Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom that published a magazine of the same name until 2001...
  
  , a Trotskyist political party
• Socialist Alliance (Australia)
  Socialist Alliance (Australia)
  The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as an alliance of socialist organisations and individuals in Australia, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the International Socialist Organisation along with 6 other founding socialist organisations, to create greater left unity in the...
  
  , a Socialist political party
• Socialist Alliance (England)
  Socialist Alliance (England)
  The Socialist Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance in England between 1992 and 2005.In late 2005, a small group reformed with the name "Socialist Alliance", with a mutual affiliation with the larger Alliance for Green Socialism.-Origins:...
  
  , a political party in England
• Socialist Alternative (Australia)
  Socialist Alternative (Australia)
  Socialist Alternative is a Trotskyist political organisation in Australia formed by an expulsion from the former International Socialist Organisation in 1995. It is one of the largest groups of the Australian far Left, claiming to have the largest active membership. With branches across...
  
  , a Marxist political organisation
• Sturmabteilung
  Sturmabteilung
  The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  , a paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

Places

• SA postcode area
  SA postcode area
  The SA postcode area, also known as the Swansea postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Aberaeron, Ammanford, Boncath, Burry Port, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Clynderwen, Crymych, Ferryside, Fishguard, Glogue, Goodwick, Haverfordwest, Kidwelly, Kilgetty, Lampeter, Llanarth, Llandeilo,...
  
  , a group of postal districts in Wales
• Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia
  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
  
  's two-letter country code
  • .sa
    .sa
    .sa is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain of Saudi Arabia. Domains of this type can be registered through SaudiNIC, a department of the Communication & Information Technology Commission...
    
    , the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saudi Arabia
• South Australia
  South Australia
  South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
  
  's official state abbreviation and postcode
• Sarajevo
  Sarajevo
  Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
  
  's official city abbreviation
• Saline County, Kansas
  Saline County, Kansas
  Saline County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 55,606...
  
  ' standard abbreviation
• South Africa
  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
  
  
• San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  
• South America
  South America
  South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
  
  

Mathematics, science, medicine, and technology

• Salicylic acid
  Salicylic acid
  Salicylic acid is a monohydroxybenzoic acid, a type of phenolic acid and a beta hydroxy acid. This colorless crystalline organic acid is widely used in organic synthesis and functions as a plant hormone. It is derived from the metabolism of salicin...
  
  , a plant hormone
• Security association
  Security association
  A Security Association is the establishment of shared security attributes between two network entities to support secure communication. An SA may include attributes such as: cryptographic algorithm and mode; traffic encryption key; and parameters for the network data to be passed over the...
  
   in the IPsec networking protocol
• Selective availability, a mechanism for degrading the precision of the civilian GPS network
• Simulated annealing
  Simulated annealing
  Simulated annealing is a generic probabilistic metaheuristic for the global optimization problem of locating a good approximation to the global optimum of a given function in a large search space. It is often used when the search space is discrete...
  
  
• Single action, a type of trigger
• Solution architecture
  Solution architecture
  Solution architecture in enterprise architecture is a kind of architecture domain, that aims to address specific problems and requirements, usually through the design of specific information systems or applications.Solution architecture is either:...
  
  , an overview of an enterprise or system that aims to address specific requirements
• Spectral acceleration
  Spectral acceleration
  Spectral acceleration is a unit measured in g that describes the maximum acceleration in an earthquake on an object – specifically a damped, harmonic oscillator moving in one physical dimension...
  
   in seismology and earthquake engineering
• Spontaneous abortion
• Structured analysis
  Structured analysis
  Structured Analysis in software engineering and its allied technique, Structured Design , are methods for analyzing and converting business requirements into specifications and ultimately, computer programs, hardware configurations and related manual procedures.Structured analysis and design...
  
  
• Subsistence agriculture
  Subsistence agriculture
  Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed their families. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to eat and clothe themselves during the year. Planting decisions are made with an eye...
  
  , a method of farming
• Superabundant number
• Surface area
  Surface area
  Surface area is the measure of how much exposed area a solid object has, expressed in square units. Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of a curve. For polyhedra the surface area is the sum of the areas of its faces...
  
  
• Sustained action, a longer-acting form of a medication
• Unbarred spiral galaxy
  Unbarred spiral galaxy
  An unbarred spiral galaxy is a type of spiral galaxy without a central bar, or one that is not a barred spiral galaxy. It is designated with an SA in the galaxy morphological classification scheme.The Sombrero Galaxy is an unbarred spiral galaxy....
  
  

Arts and entertainment

• SA (Sontata Arctica)
  Sonata Arctica
  Sonata Arctica are a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1995. Their later works contain several elements typical of progressive metal.....
  
  , a finnish power metal band
• SA (Samurai Attack)
  SA (Samurai Attack)
  SA is a Japanese punk rock band. Their style of music has been described as Oi! Punk....
  
  , a Japanese punk rock band
• S · A: Special A, a manga series by Maki Minami
• Skunk Anansie
  Skunk Anansie
  Skunk Anansie is an English rock band whose members include Skin , Cass , Ace and Mark Richardson .Skunk Anansie formed in March 1994, disbanded in 2001 and reformed in 2009...
  
  , a British band
• Something Awful
  Something Awful
  Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a variety of content, including blog entries, forums, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. It was created by Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka in 1999 as a largely personal website, but as it grew, so...
  
  , a comedy website
• Soziedad Alkoholika
  Soziedad Alkoholika
  Commonly abbreviated to SA is a crossover thrash band from the Basque Country in Spain. They were founded in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 1988. They usually talk against militarism, fascism, racism, sexism, rage, decadence, monarchy and others themes like these in their lyrics.Over these years S.A...
  
  , a Spanish punk rock band
• Sonic Adventure
  Sonic Adventure
  is a 1999 platform video game developed by Sonic Team and released on December 23, 1998, in Japan by Sega for the Dreamcast. One of its development titles was Sonic RPG...
  
  , a launch title for the Sega Dreamcast, ported to the PC
• Say Anything (band)
  Say Anything (band)
  Say Anything is an American indie-punk band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Max Bemis. The band was formed in 2000 with Bemis and four of his friends. Within two years, they self-released two EPs, Junior Varsity and In Your Dreams, and the full-length Baseball: An Album by Sayanything.In...
  
  , an indie rock band

Other uses

• Seaman Apprentice
  Seaman Apprentice
  ConstructionmanvariationFiremanvariationAirmanvariationSeamaninsigniaSeaman apprentice is the second lowest enlisted rank in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, just above seaman recruit and below seaman; this rank was formerly known as seaman second class.The actual title for an E-2 in the U.S....
  
  
• Single adult
  Single Adult
  Single adult is the term used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to describe any unmarried person over the age of 18. It is also applied to single adults over the age of 30, since they are not included in the more specific term, "Young Single Adult"...
  
  , a designation for unmarried people in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Situation awareness
  Situation awareness
  Situation awareness, situational awareness, or SA, is the perception of environmental elements with respect to time and/or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status after some variable has changed, such as time...
  
  , a component of aviation safety and other socio-technical systems
• Social anxiety
  Social anxiety
  Social anxiety is anxiety about social situations, interactions with others, and being evaluated or scrutinized by other people...
  
  
• Microsoft Software Assurance
  Microsoft Software Assurance
  Microsoft Software Assurance is a Microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and other server and desktop applications...
  
  
• South African Airways
  South African Airways
  South African Airways is the national flag carrier and largest airline of South Africa, with headquarters in Airways Park on the grounds of OR Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. The airline flies to 36 destinations worldwide from its hub at OR Tambo International...
  
  's IATA code

See also

• Essay
  Essay
  An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
  
  
• Sa (disambiguation)
• ESE (disambiguation)
• GTA: SA or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a video game