UA

616 words updated Jun 18, 2026, 7:35 AM

UA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

Unearthed Arcana, a Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook
Unknown Armies, a tabletop role-playing game
Urban Assault, a first-person shooter and real-time strategy computer game

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Ua (singer) (born 1972), a Japanese singer-songwriter
United Abominations, an album by the band Megadeth
United Artists, a film production & distribution company owned by Amazon MGM Studios
The Umbrella Academy, a graphic novel by Gerard Way

Organizations

Non-cooperative businesses

Under Armour, an American clothing brand (NYSE ticker: UA)
Union Association, a baseball league of 1884
United Airlines, a major American airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois (IATA airline designator: UA)
Universal Audio (company), a designer and manufacturer of audio signal processing hardware and software
UP Aerospace, a private spaceflight company based in Denver, Colorado

Universities and university consortiums

University Alliance, a lobbying group of British universities
University of Abra, a public university in Abra, Philippines
University of Akron, a public research university in Akron, Ohio, United States
University of Alabama, a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
University of Alaska system, a university system in Alaska created in 1975

:* University of Alaska Anchorage, the largest university by enrollment in the system

:* University of Alaska Fairbanks, the first university and flagship (known from 1925 to 1975 simply as the University of Alaska)

:* University of Alaska Southeast, located in the capital city of Juneau, and the smallest by enrollment

University of Alicante, a public university in Alicante, Spain
University of Antwerp, one of the major Belgian universities located in the city of Antwerp
University of Arizona, a public research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States
University of Arkansas, a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Other organizations

ultrAslan, a fan group of the Galatasaray Spor Kulübü football team
United Association, a plumbing and pipefitting labor union in the US and Canada

Military

Future Force unit of action, a proposed US Army tactical unit
German submarine UA, a German submarine of the Second World War
German Type UA submarine, of the First World War
, a First World War submarine of Imperial Germany
Unauthorized absence, a key term for the abandonment of a duty or post without permission (United States)

Places

UA, ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 country code for Ukraine
Uttaranchal, a state in India formerly abbreviated as UA in vehicle registration plates
Upper Arlington, Ohio

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Unstable angina, a type of heart disease
Uric acid, a metabolic compound
Urinalysis (also U/A), a set of medical diagnostic tests performed on urine

Computing and telecommunications

.ua, the Internet country code top-level domain for Ukraine
User agent, a computer networking software class
User assistance, computer programme manuals and documentation
Universal Acceptance, a principle regarding top-level domains
OPC Unified Architecture, a protocol used in industry 4.0 for inter machine communication

Other uses in science and technology

Unmanned aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle
Microampere (uA, properly μA), a unit of electric current defined as one-millionth of an ampere
UA, the product of a heat exchanger's overall heat transfer coefficient U and its active exchange area A in thermodynamics

Other uses

Unit of account, in economics, a standard numerical monetary unit of measurement
Unitary authority, a type of local authority that is responsible for all local government functions within its area
Urban area or urban agglomeration, a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment

See also

U of A (disambiguation)
Ursuline (disambiguation)