UMA
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UMA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings.
Uma is also a name given for a girl, which refers to the Hindu goddess of Power, Sati as well as her incarnation Parvati after the former's death, both wives of god Shiva.
Uma in Japanese means "horse."
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[edit] Abbreviations
- Arab Maghreb Union, known more commonly by its french acronym UMA
- Ukrainian Museum-Archives, a museum in Cleveland, Ohio dedicated to Ukrainian culture
- Unidentified Mysterious Animal, an alternative name for a cryptid in cryptozoology
- Unified Memory Architecture, a computer memory architecture that allows the graphics processing unit to share system memory
- Unified Method Architecture is a meta-model what has been developed as a unification of different method and process engineering languages
- Uniform Memory Access, a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers
- United Motorcoach Association, a professional association of bus and motorcoach companies
- Universal Multimedia Adaptation, a technology for Next-Generation Networks
- University of Madeira, a Portuguese public university in Funchal, Madeira
- University of Maine at Augusta, a campus of the University of Maine
- Unlicensed Mobile Access, a technology that provides roaming between GSM and 802.11, based on the 3GPP or Generic Access Network (GAN) standard.
- Upper Memory Area, a part of Extended Memory Specification in DOS
- Ursa Major (UMa), a constellation
- In medicine, UMA is sometimes used as an abbreviation for a diagnostic test procedure called urinary vanillylmandelic acid.
[edit] People
- Uma Thurman, an American actress
- Uma Bharati, an Indian politician and sannyasin
- Uma Khouny, an Israeli-Filipino contestant in Pinoy Big Brother
- Uma Pemmaraju, a news anchor for Fox News Channel
[edit] Places
- Uma District, Ehime, a district in Ehime prefecture, Japan
- Universidad de Málaga, a university in Spain
[edit] Other
- Uma (language), a language spoken in Sulawesi [1]
- Uma, the traditional communal house of the Mentawai people
- Uma, the genus of North American fringe-toed lizards
- Cyclone Uma, a tropical cyclone which caused considerable damage to Port Vila, Vanuatu in 1987
- Uma, one of the main characters of Oobi
- UMA Engineering Ltd., an engineering firm with offices in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan
- Uma (film) (English title: Horse), a 1941 Japanese film by Kajiro Yamamoto
- Uma (musician), a singer, guitarist, and member of the Oobi Band
- Ms. Uma, a character from Crayon Shin-chan
[edit] See also
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