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 Goddess of Power Parvati in Hindu mythology.
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[edit] Abbreviations
- 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 Bluetooth or 802.11, now known as Generic Access Network
- 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
[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
- Uma Ramadorai, a metallurgical engineer in Cummins Inc.
[edit] Places
- Uma District, Ehime, a district in Ehime prefecture, Japan
- Universidad de Málaga, a university in Spain
[edit] Other
- Uma, a language spoken in Sulawesi [1]
- Uma, the traditional communal house of the Mentawai people
- Uma (lizard genus), 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, an army of an online game called Club Penguin
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