VA

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VA may be an abbreviation for:

• 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
• VERSE Australia, the colloquial name given to VERSE Australia, a recording label from Australia. verse.net.au
• United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a department of the United States government
• 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 abbreviations)
• 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
• 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
• The V speed in aviation associated with design maneuvering speed.