Sha or SHA may refer to:

Places

Sha County Shaxian District (), formerly Sha County, is a District (China), District of Sanming, Fujian, Fujian Province, China, People's Republic of China. Shaxian District is the hometown of Shaxian delicacies, which are considered part of the food heritag ...

, Fujian, China *

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is one of two international airports serving Shanghai, China. The airport is located near the town of Hongqiao in the outskirts of Changning and Minhang districts, west of downtown, and is closer to ...

(IATA code SHA) * Sia, Cyprus, also spelled ''Sha'' * Sagamihara Housing Area, an army installation in Japan

People and language

Sha (surname) Sha is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is listed 387th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 216th most common surname in China ...

Sha (singer) Grazia di Fresco, better known by her stage name Sha, is a German singer of Italian descent who rose to fame in the summer of 2006 with her debut single "JaJa". Formation Sha grew up in Schwieberdingen near Stuttgart. After finishing school in th ...

(born 1979), German singer *

Sha Fei Sha Fei (; May 5, 1912 – March 4, 1950) was a Chinese photojournalist and war photographer best known for his work with the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Born Situ Chuan (司徒传), he took the pseud ...

(1912–1950), Chinese photojournalist *

Sha language Sha is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria. As of 2018, the language is used for face-to-face communication and lacks a standardized written form. It is spoken by approximately 1,000 people and is considered ...

Sha (Cyrillic) Sha, alternatively transliterated Ša (Ш ш; italics: ) is a letter of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of sh in "ship". More precisely, the sound i ...

(Ш, ш), a Cyrillic letter * Śa (Indic), a character in Brahmic scripts *

Ṣa (Indic) Ṣa is a consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Ssa is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta script, Gupta letter . Āryabhaṭa numeration Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for num ...

, a character in Brahmic scripts

Government and organizations

Maryland State Highway Administration The Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA, MDOT SHA, or simply SHA) is the state mode responsible for maintaining Maryland's Maryland highway system, numbered highways outside Baltimore. Formed originally under authority of the Maryland ...

* Strategic health authorities, a former type of administrative organisation of the NHS in England * Saskatchewan Hockey Association, now known as

Hockey Saskatchewan Hockey Saskatchewan is the governing body of all ice hockey in Saskatchewan. Hockey Saskatchewan is a branch of Hockey Canada. Hockey Saskatchewan was established as the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association in 1906, and was later known as th ...

Secondary Heads Association The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), formerly the Secondary Heads Association (SHA), is a UK professional association and trade union for leaders of schools and colleges. History The Association of Head Mistresses (AHM) was foun ...

, now the Association of School and College Leaders *

Society for Historical Archaeology The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is a professional organization of scholars concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (15th century-present). Founded in 1967, the SHA promotes scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledg ...

* The

Socialist Health Association The Socialist Health Association (SHA, called the Socialist Medical Association before May 1981) is a socialist medical association based in the United Kingdom. It is affiliated to the Labour Party as a socialist society. History The Socialis ...

, English medical association

History

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Scriptores Historiae Augustae The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

Science and technology

Secure Hash Algorithms The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), including: * SHA-0: A retronym applied to the ...

, SHA-0 to SHA-3 * Shorthand abstraction, a term presented in the 2007 book ''

What Is Intelligence? ''What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect'' is a book by psychologist James R. Flynn which outlines his model for an explanation of the eponymous Flynn effect. The book summarizes much of the work of Flynn in this area, as well as that o ...

'' by James R. Flynn *

Sidereal hour angle In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the '' meridian plane'' (containing Earth's axis and the zenith) and the ''hour circle'' (containing Earth's axis and a given point of interest). It may be g ...

, in astronomy *

Intel SHA extensions A SHA instruction set is a set of extensions to the x86 and ARM architecture, ARM instruction set architecture which support hardware acceleration of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) family. It was specified in 2013 by Intel. Instructions for SHA-512 wa ...

* Measure of material hardness using a Shore A type

Shore durometer The Shore durometer is a device for measuring the hardness of a material, typically of polymers. Higher numbers on the scale indicate a greater resistance to indentation and thus harder materials. Lower numbers indicate less resistance and sof ...

Other uses

Sha (animal) In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or ''sha'', is the affiliated animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast. Unlike other ...

, the totemic animal of the Egyptian god Set * ''Sha'' (comics), a French comic by Pat Mills *

Shareholders' agreement A shareholders' agreement (sometimes referred to in the U.S. as a stockholders' agreement) (SHA) is an enforceable agreement amongst the shareholders or members of a company. In practical effect, it is analogous to a partnership agreement. There ...