VA

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, 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 successful 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.

VA or Va may also mean:

Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
VA Software (formerly "VA Linux Systems"), provider of the SourceForge Development Intelligence application
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).

Translation

The word "VA" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, French, Korean, Italian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Breton: Va, Esperanto: Va, Dutch: Va, Finnish: Va.