PMA

PMA may refer to:

Organizations

• Pacific Maritime Association
• Pacific Missionary Aviation
• Palestine Monetary Authority
• Pakistan Marine Academy
• Pakistan Military Academy
• Presentation of Mary Academy
• People's Municipal Assembly
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Philippine Military Academy
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
• Photo Marketing Association
• PMA Group, a lobbying firm in the US
• Policia Militar Ambulante (Mobile Military Police, Ambulant Military Police or PMA) was an elite paramilitary corp active in Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War.
• Power Marketing Administration
• Power Matters Alliance, a consortium promoting a wireless charging standard
• President's Management Agenda, US
• Produce Marketing Association
• Publishers Marketing Association
• Puckapunyal Military Area, Australia
• Pemba Airport (Tanzania) (IATA airport code)

Science and technology

• para-Methoxyamphetamine, an amphetamine derivative
• Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, a transient PKC stimulator
• Phosphomolybdic acid, used as a thin-layer chromatography stain
• Poly(methyl acrylate), a synthetic acrylate polymer
• Principles of Mathematical Analysis, a real analysis textbook
• Progressive muscular atrophy, a neurodegenerative muscle-wasting disease
• Propidium monoazide, a fluorescent dye
• Psychomotor agitation, unintentional and purposeless movements accompanying some health conditions (depression, anxiety, and others)

Technology and engineering

• Persistent Management Agent, defined by Broadband Forum WT-318
• phpMyAdmin, management tool of a MySQL database
• Physical Medium Attachment in computer network protocols is a sublayer of physical layer
• Program Memory Area, of a CDRW
• Pressurized Mating Adapter, for docking a spacecraft to the International Space Station
• Post mortem analysis, a technical analysis of a finished project
• Parts Manufacturer Approval, a U.S. government approval for manufacture of aircraft parts
• Premarket approval, a U.S. government approval for medical devices

Humanities

• Positive mental attitude, a philosophy of having an optimistic disposition in every situation
• Post mortem auctoris, a Latin term meaning "after the author's death", most often used in determining copyright
• Professional Master's in Social Sciences and Humanities, a postgraduate academic degree program

Other uses

• Performance Monitoring for Action, a survey held at intervals in Burkina Faso
• "PMA" (song), a 2021 song by All Time Low
• "PMA", a 2012 song by Lower Than Atlantis from their album Changing Tune