SMA or S.M.A. may refer to:

Places

  • American Samoa, ITU letter code
  • Santa Maria Airport (Azores) (IATA code)
  • San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

People

  • Sergeant Major of the Army, U.S.
  • Sima (Chinese surname), or Sma
  • Joshua Falk, known as SM"A

Finance

  • Separately managed account, types of investment account
  • Special memorandum account, used regarding US Regulation T

Organisations

  • Scouts Musulmans Algériens, the Algerian Muslim Scouts
  • Sharjah Museums Authority
  • SMA Engines, a diesel aircraft engine manufacturer
  • SMA Solar Technology
  • Society of African Missions, a Catholic missionary organization
  • Society of Makeup Artists, post-nominal letters

Education

  • Saint Mary's Academy, Dominica
  • Sekolah Menengah Atas, Indonesian for "senior secondary school"
  • San Marcos Baptist Academy, Texas, US
  • Sarasota Military Academy, Florida, US
  • Science and Mathematics Academy, a program at Aberdeen High School, Maryland, US
  • Former Staunton Military Academy, Charles Town, Virginia, US

Science, engineering and technology

  • Shape-memory alloy, that returns to its shape when heated
  • Signal magnitude area, a statistical measure of magnitude
  • Stone mastic asphalt, a type of road surface
  • Styrene maleic anhydride, a synthetic polymer
  • Submillimeter Array, radio telescopes in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, US

Computing and electronics

  • SMA* (Simplified Memory-bounded Algorithm), a shortest path algorithm
  • SMA connector (SubMiniature version A), a coaxial RF connector
  • SMA 905 or F-SMA I, SMA 906 or F-SMA II, an optical fiber connector
  • SMA or DO-214AC, a variant of the DO-214 diode package
  • Surface-mount assembly, in electronics

Medicine and biology

  • Standard methods agar or plate count agar
  • SMA, several medical abbreviations
  • SMA 12, SMA 20 and SMAC, previous names of Comprehensive metabolic panel blood tests
  • α-SMA or ACTA2, an actin protein
  • Spinal muscular atrophy, a severe neuromuscular disorder
  • Spinal muscular atrophies, a heterogeneous group of rare disorders
  • Superior mesenteric artery
  • Supplementary motor area, of the primate brain

Mathematics

  • Simple moving average, in statistics

Music

  • Seoul Music Awards
  • "Sma", a 1999 song from the Point No. 1 album by band Chevelle

Other uses

  • Simulated milk adapted, an infant formula
  • SMA, Nestlé brand of baby milk
  • Southern Sami language (ISO 639-2 language code)

See also