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- Validation Authority, in Public key infrastructurePublic key infrastructurePublic Key Infrastructure is a set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates. In cryptography, a PKI is an arrangement that binds public keys with respective user identities by means of a certificate...
- Value addedValue addedIn economics, the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the value added per unit. Summing value added per unit over all units sold is total value added. Total value added is equivalent to Revenue less Outside Purchases...
, economic term meaning additional value of the product created on a given stage of production, marketing or other involved process - Variable annuity
- Various Artists, a term used in the recording industry when multiple artists are featured in a work
- United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsThe United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is the United States government’s second largest department, after the United States Department of Defense...
, formerly the Veterans Administration, a department of the United States government - Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Swedish scientific organisation
- Ventral anterior nucleusVentral 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 and to primary motor...
, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system - Veterans Health AdministrationVeterans Health AdministrationThe Veterans Health Administration is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the medical assistance program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA outpatient clinics,...
, better abbreviated as "VHA", a sub-department of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs - Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
- VirginiaVirginiaThe 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" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, United States postal abbreviation - Va., older United States postal abbreviation for VirginiaVirginiaThe 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" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
- Visual acuityVisual acuityVisual acuity is acuteness or clearness of 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 artsVisual artsThe visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
- Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the White Wolf, Inc. role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
- Virtual airlineVirtual airlineA 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 assistantVirtual assistantCommon 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...
an independent contractor providing administrative, technical, or sometimes creative assistance to clients via the internet - Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
- Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate sound of analog synthesisers using DSP techniques
- Violent ApathyViolent ApathyViolent 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 SpacecraftTKS spacecraftTKS spacecraft was a Soviet spacecraft design in the late 1960s intended to supply the military Almaz space station. The spacecraft was designed for manned or autonomous cargo resupply use...
- V Australia AirlinesV AustraliaVirgin Australia International Airlines Pty Ltd, trading as V Australia, is a long haul international airline owned by Virgin Blue Holdings. It operates as an international feeder for Virgin Australia...
, IATA airline designator - Volt-ampereVolt-ampereA volt-ampere is the unit used for the apparent power in an electrical circuit, equal to the product of root-mean-square voltage and RMS current. In direct current circuits, this product is equal to the real power in watts...
, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, dimensionally equivalent to the watt - Vulnerability assessmentVulnerability assessmentA vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the vulnerabilities in a system. Examples of systems for which vulnerability assessments are performed include, but are not limited to, information technology systems, energy supply systems, water supply...
, is the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system - Vascular anomaly (disambiguation)
- Vermont AcademyVermont AcademyVermont Academy is an American coeducational boarding/day school and college preparatory school for grades nine through twelve and also offers acceptance for students seeking a post-graduate year. Founded in 1876, it is located in Saxtons River, Vermont. The school is coeducational, and...
, a boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT - Vertical asymptote
VA or Va may also mean:
- Va peopleVa peopleThe Va nationality lives mainly in Northern Burma, in the northern part of Shan and eastern Kachin States, near and along the border with China. Their defacto capital is Pangkham in the unofficial Wa State in North Eastern Shan state. The majority of the Va live in Burma...
, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar - VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems"), a computer builder, software publisher, and online media company that eventually became GeeknetGeeknetGeeknet, Inc. is a Mountain View, California company that owns several computer tech-related websites and the online retailer ThinkGeek. Formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc., it was founded in 1993.-VA Research:VA Research was founded in November...
- An amateur radio callsign prefix for CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends 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 AlbertRoyal Order of Victoria and AlbertThe 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)
- VA Tech WabagVA Tech WabagVA Tech Wabag GmbH is a multinational company with dual headquarters in Chennai, India and Vienna, Austria.Founded in 1924, the company is the largest in the world specializing in water treatment for municipal and industrial users. The company has completed a total of 6000 projects.-Wabag:In 1924,...
, a company with headquarters in Austria and India - Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, ISO 3166-1 country code- .va.va.va is the Internet country code top-level domain for the State of the Vatican City. It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See.There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Vatican
- .va