VA

VA, Va and variants may refer to:

Places

• Vä, Sweden, a village
• Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA)
• Virginia, United States postal abbreviation

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

• VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems") a company that eventually became Geeknet
• VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
• Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
• Virgin Australia (IATA airline designator VA)
  • V Australia (IATA airline designator VA) former subsidiary

Government agencies

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs, formerly the Veterans Administration, a department of the US government
  • Veterans Health Administration, sub-department better abbreviated as "VHA"

Other organizations

• VA (Public & Science), Swedish scientific organisation
• Vermont Academy, boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
• Vibrant Academy, coaching institute in Kota, Rajasthan
• VA, post nominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
• Virtual airline (hobby), flight simulation hobby organization
• Voluntary aided school, type of state-funded school in England and Wales

Media and entertainment

• Va (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie
• Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
• Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
• Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
• Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
• Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate analog synthesizers
• Visual arts
• Voice actor, actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

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

Computing and systems

• .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Vatican
• Validation Authority, in Public key infrastructure
• Virtual address, a computer memory location in Virtual address space
• Vertical alignment, technology of the modern LCDs Monitor.
• Visual Analytics - Business Intelligence visualization tool
• Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system

Mathematics and physics

• Vertex algebra
• Vertical asymptote, in mathematics
• Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, equivalent to the watt

Space and aviation

• V_A, the design maneuvering speed of an aircraft
• Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle

Other uses

• Various Artists, used in the description of a music album which contains tracks that have been compiled from several different artists
• Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
• Value added, in economics
• Variable annuity, a financial instrument
• Vice admiral, a military rank
• Virtual assistant, an independent contractor providing assistance to clients via the internet
• Volatile acidity or vinegar taint, high acetic acidity in wine
• Amateur radio callsign prefix for Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"