VA

VA or V.A. may refer to:

  • 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
  • Variable annuity
  • 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
  • Va., older United States postal abbreviation for Virginia
  • 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 an 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
  • Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle
  • 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 (disambiguation)
  • Vermont Academy, a boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
  • Vertical asymptote
  • Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug

VA or Va may also mean:

  • Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
  • Va (film), a 2010 film
  • 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)
  • VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
  • Vatican City, ISO 3166-1 country code
    • .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Vatican