VA

VA, Va, or V.A. may refer to:

Places

• Villanova, abbreviation for the full name
• Virginia, United States postal abbreviation
  • Va., older United States postal abbreviation for Virginia
• Vatican City, ISO 3166-1 country code
  • .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Vatican

Organizations and institutions

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs, formerly the Veterans Administration, a department of the United States government
• Veterans Health Administration, better abbreviated as "VHA", a sub-department of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs
• Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Swedish scientific organisation
• Vermont Academy, a boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
• Vibrant Academy, a coaching institute in Kota, Rajasthan
• Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
• Virgin Australia, IATA airline designator
  • The former IATA airline designator for V Australia Airlines
• VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems"), a computer builder, software publisher, and online media company that eventually became Geeknet
• VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
• Virtual airline, a dedicated hobby organization that uses flight simulation to model the operations of an airline

Art, literature, and entertainment

• Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
• Visual arts
• Voice actor, an actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media
• Various Artists, a term used in the recording industry when multiple artists are featured in a work
• Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate sound of analog synthesisers using DSP techniques
• Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
• Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the White Wolf, Inc. role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
• Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
• Va (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie.

Medicine and biology

• Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
• Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception
• Vascular anomaly (disambiguation)
• Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug

Other

• Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
• Validation Authority, in Public key infrastructure
• Value added, economic term meaning additional value of the product created on a given stage of production, marketing or other involved process
• Variable annuity
• Vertical asymptote
• Vice admiral
• Virtual address, a computer memory location in Virtual address space
• Virtual assistant an independent contractor providing administrative, technical, or sometimes creative assistance to clients via the internet
• Volatile acidity, vinegar taint or high acetic acidity in wine
• Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, dimensionally equivalent to the watt
• Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle
• Vulnerability assessment, is the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system
• An amateur radio callsign prefix for Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"
• Postnominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
• Air speed in aviation associated with design maneuvering speed (Official abbreviation in FAR and CS requirements)