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

 * 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 code since 2011)
 * V Australia (IATA code 2009–2011)
 * Viasa (IATA code 1960–1997)

Organizations

 * United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a department of the US government
 * VA (Public & Science), Swedish scientific organisation
 * Vermont Academy, boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
 * VA, post nominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
 * VA, nickname for the French association football club Valenciennes FC
 * 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

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 the State of the Vatican City
 * Validation Authority, in public key infrastructure
 * Virtual address, a computer memory location in virtual address space
 * Vertical alignment, a technology used in a modern liquid-crystal display
 * Visual analytics, business intelligence visualization tools
 * 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

Electronics

 * VA (voltage), a positive supply voltage

Space and aviation

 * VA, 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"
 * Vá (footballer), Angolan footballer
 * MG VA, a car manufactured by MG