Uma

Uma

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.

Abbreviations

*United Motorcoach Association, a professional association of bus and motorcoach companies
*Universal Multimedia Adaptation, a technology for Next-Generation Networks
*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
*Uniform Memory Access, a computer memory architecture used in parallel computers
*Upper Memory Area, a part of Extended Memory Specification in DOS
*Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), a technology that provides roaming between GSM and 802.11, based on the 3GPP Generic Access Network (GAN) standard
*Ursa Major (UMa), a constellation
*In medicine, UMA is sometimes used as an abbreviation for a diagnostic test procedure called urinary Vanillyl mandelic acid.
*University of Maine at Augusta, a campus of the University of Maine
*Unified Method Architecture is a meta-model what has been developed as a unification of different method and process engineering languages

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

Places

*Uma District, Ehime, a district in Ehime prefecture, Japan
*Universidad de Málaga, a university in Spain

Other

*Uma, a language spoken in Sulawesi [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ppk]
*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" (English title: "Horse"), a 1941 Japanese film by Kajiro Yamamoto
*Uma, a singer, guitarist, and member of the Oobi Band


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