VA

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VA may be an abbreviation for:

• 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
• Various Artists, a term used in the recording industry when multiple artists are featured in a work
• United States Department of Veterans Affairs, formerly the Veterans Administration, a department of the United States government
• Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Swedish scientific organisation
• Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
• Veterans Health Administration, better abbreviated as "VHA", a sub-department of the United States Department of Veteran Affairs
• Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
• Virginia, United States postal abbreviation
• Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception
• Visual arts
• Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the White Wolf, Inc. role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
• Virtual airline
• Virtual assistant a independent contractor providing administrative, technical, or sometimes creative assistance to clients via the internet
• Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
• Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate sound of analog synthesisers using DSP techniques
• Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
• Voice actor, an actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media
• Vozvrashaemiy Apparat, a reentry capsule of TKS Spacecraft
• V Australia Airlines, IATA airline designator
• Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, dimensionally equivalent to the watt
• Vulnerability assessment, is the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system
• Vascular anomaly
• Vermont Academy, a boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
• Vertical asymptote

VA or Va may also mean:

• Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
• VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems"), a computer builder, software publisher, and online media company that eventually became Geeknet
• 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)

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