GA

GA, Ga, or ga may refer to:

Businesses

 * Garuda Indonesia (IATA airline code GA)
 * General Assembly, a digital and technology training company
 * General Atlantic, a private equity company
 * General Atomics (formerly GA Technologies Inc.), a U.S. defense contractor
 * General Automation, a former computer manufacturer
 * Georgia Railroad and Banking Company (AAR mark)
 * Greater Anglia, a UK train operating company

Other organizations

 * Gamblers Anonymous, a support group for recovering gamblers
 * Gazte Abertzaleak or Young Patriots, the youth organization of Eusko Alkartasuna
 * General assembly (disambiguation)
 * United Nations General Assembly, the main deliberative organ of the United Nations
 * Geographical Association, a UK organisation dedicated to the teaching of geography
 * Geologists' Association, a UK organisation dedicated to the study of geology
 * Geoscience Australia, an Australian organisation dedicated to geoscientific research
 * Germantown Academy, an independent school in Fort Washington, United States
 * Government Arsenal, an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of National Defence

Languages and dialects

 * Ga language
 * General American English, an accent of the Midwestern U.S.
 * Irish language (ISO 639-1 code "ga")

Characters

 * Ga (Indic), a glyph in the Brahmic family of script
 * Ga (Javanese) (ꦒ), a letter in the Javanese script
 * Ga (kana), in Japanese

Africa

 * Ga District, Ghana, a former district of southern Ghana
 * Gã State, a traditional state in southern Ghana headed by the Gã Mantse
 * Ga-Rankuwa, a town in South Africa
 * Gabon (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code)
 * The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code)

Other places

 * Goa, in India (ISO 3166-2 country subdivision code GA)
 * Georgia (U.S. state) (postal abbreviation GA)

Biology and medicine

 * General anaesthesia, administration of drugs to induce unconsciousness prior to surgery
 * Geographic atrophy, an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration
 * Gestational age (obstetrics), in pregnancy, the time since onset of last menstrual period
 * Embryonic age or gestational age, the length of gestation since fertilization
 * Gibberellin, a plant growth hormone
 * Tabun (nerve agent) (NATO designation GA)

Computing

 * .ga, the country code top-level domain for Gabon
 * General availability, the final stage in the software development lifecycle
 * Genetic algorithm, an optimization technique in computer science
 * Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google

Other uses in science and technology

 * Gallium (symbol Ga), a chemical element
 * General aviation, the category of civil aviation encompassing all non-scheduled aircraft flights
 * Geometric algebra, a Clifford algebra used in a geometric context
 * Gigaampere (GA), an SI unit of electric current equal to 1,000,000,000 (one billion) amps
 * Gigaannum (Ga), a unit of time equal to 1,000,000,000 (one billion) years.
 * Go Ahead, in a telecommunications device for the deaf

Sport

 * Goal attack, a position in netball
 * Goals against, a statistic in ice hockey and other sports

Other uses

 * GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class, an ongoing 2004 manga series by Satoko Kiyuzuki
 * Gandhara or Ga, a basic note of the scale in Indian music, or Svara
 * Ga people, an ethnic group of Ghana
 * General of the Army, a military rank
 * Global affairs, abbreviated GA, alternative term for International relations, the study of politics, economics and law on a global level
 * Graduate assistant, a role in academia and in U.S. college sports