SMA explained

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)