Engineering and Technology
- Shape memory alloy, a metal that "remembers" its geometry
- Shared Memory Architecture, a design where a computer graphics chip does not have its own dedicated memory
- Connectors:
- SMA connector, a type of coaxial radio-frequency connector
- Optical fiber connector
- SMA Engines, a diesel aircraft engine manufacturer
- SMA Solar Technology, a manufacturer of solar inverters
- Stone mastic asphalt, a type of road surface
- Styrene Maleic Anhydride, a copolymer with high heat properties
- Submillimeter Array, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- Simplified Memory-Bounded Algorithm SMA*, a memory usage optimising variant of the heuristic A* algorithm to search in trees
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