WMA may refer to:
Organizations
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Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association The Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (WMA) is a nonprofit organization formed in 1945 for the exclusive purpose of promoting and protecting the interests of owners, operators and developers of manufactured home communities in Ca ...
, a nonprofit trade association in California, US
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Western Marble Arch, a synagogue in London
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William Morris Agency
The William Morris Agency (WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency. It represented some of the best known 20th-century entertainers in film, television, and music. During its 109-year tenure it came to be regarded as the "first great talent ag ...
, literary and entertainment agents, now known as WME Entertainment
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World Masters Athletics
World Masters Athletics (WMA) is the worldwide governing body for the sport of masters athletics – which includes track and field, cross country, and road running events – as participated by people over 35 years of age.
As the need became ap ...
, a sport governing body
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World Medical Association
The World Medical Association (WMA) is an international and independent confederation of free professional medical associations representing physicians worldwide. WMA was formally established on September 18, 1947 and has grown to 115 national ...
, an international confederation of free professional Medical Associations
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World Marketing Alliance, former name of the World Financial Group
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Warsash Maritime Academy
Warsash Maritime School, formerly Warsash Maritime Centre and Warsash Maritime Academy, is a maritime training college that is part of Solent University. The college provides education, training, consultancy and research to the international sh ...
, in Hampshire, UK
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Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) is a college-preparatory school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day high school for students in Grades 9-12 and postgraduate. A middle school, with Grades 6–8 ...
, a prep school in Massachusetts
Science and technology
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Weighted moving average
In statistics, a moving average (rolling average or running average) is a calculation to analyze data points by creating a series of averages of different subsets of the full data set. It is also called a moving mean (MM) or rolling mean and is ...
, in statistics
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Windows Media Audio
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. The ...
, a digital audio file format created by Microsoft
* Wireless Messaging API, in Java ME
MIDP
Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) is a specification published for the use of Java on embedded devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. MIDP is part of the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) framework and sits on top of Connected Limi ...
Music
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"W.M.A." (Pearl Jam song)
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World Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international award show founded in 1989 under the patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and co-founder/executive producer John Martinotti. The event is based in Monte Carlo. Awards are presented to the world' ...
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World Metal Alliance
The World Metal Alliance (WMA) is a music organization founded in 1992. Its initial purpose was to inform and unite the heavy metal subculture in order to counteract opposition to heavy metal by groups such as the PMRC which were active at the tim ...
, a music organization
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Western Music Association
The International Western Music Association was incorporated in 1989 to promote and preserve Western Music (North America), western music in its traditional, historical, and contemporary forms.
The IWMA stages the International Western Music Fes ...
, in
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
Other uses
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Washington metropolitan area
The Washington metropolitan area, also commonly referred to as the National Capital Region, is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. The metropolitan area includes all of Washington, D.C. and parts of the states of Maryland, Virgi ...
, Washington D.C. and its surrounding area
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Western martial arts
Historical European martial arts (HEMA) are martial arts of European origin, particularly using arts formerly practised, but having since died out or evolved into very different forms.
While there is limited surviving documentation of the martia ...
, the study of historical manuscripts to teach students the martial arts of Europe
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Wildlife Management Area
A Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a protected area set aside for the conservation of wildlife and for recreational activities involving wildlife.
New Zealand
There are 11 Wildlife Management Areas in New Zealand:
* Horsham Downs Wildlife Man ...
, for the conservation of wildlife and for recreational activities involving wildlife
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Ways and means advances
Ways and means advances (WMA) is a mechanism used by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under its credit policy to provide to States, banking with it, to help them tide over temporary mismatches in the cash flow of their receipts and payments. This i ...
, a credit policy used by Reserve Bank of India
* War Measures Act, an emergency measure formerly in Canadian Parliamentary law
See also
* WMAS (disambiguation)
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