Osa
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Osa may refer to:
OSA as an acronym can stand for:
- Osa peninsulaOsa PeninsulaThe Osa Peninsula is a peninsula located in southwestern Costa Rica, in the Puntarenas Province, on the Pacific Ocean, at . The peninsula was formed geologically by a faulting system that extends north into California....
, a peninsula in Costa Rica - Osa, Allahabad, a village in Allahabad, India
- Osa, Warmian-Masurian VoivodeshipOsa, Warmian-Masurian VoivodeshipOsa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mikołajki, within Mrągowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Mikołajki, east of Mrągowo, and east of the regional capital Olsztyn....
(north Poland) - Osa, RussiaOsa, RussiaOsa is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.Urban localities*Osa, Perm Krai, a town in Osinsky District of Perm KraiRural localities*Osa, Kirov Oblast, a village in Kotelnichsky District of Kirov Oblast...
, name of several inhabited localities in Russia - Osa class missile boatOsa class missile boatThe Project 205 Tsunami, more commonly known by their NATO reporting name Osa, are a class of missile boats developed for the Soviet Navy in the early 1960s. The Osas are probably the most numerous class of missile boats ever built, with over 400 vessels constructed for both the Soviet Navy and for...
- 9K33 Osa9K33 OsaThe 9K33 OSA is a highly mobile, low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air missile system. "9K33" is its GRAU designation. Its NATO reporting name is SA-8 Gecko.-Description:...
(SA-8 Gecko), a Soviet surface-to-air missile launcher - M79 Osa, a Serbian/Yugoslav rocket launcher
- Avia B.122Avia B.122|...
Osa, a Czech trainer aircraft - Osa (plant genus), a genus of plants in the RubiaceaeRubiaceaeThe Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family - Osa, nickname of former Takarazuka Revue actress Sumire HarunoSumire Harunois a former member of Takarazuka Revue, specializing in otokoyaku. She joined the revue in 1991, became the top star in 2002 and resigned from the company in 2007...
OSA as an acronym can stand for:
- Obstructive sleep apneaObstructive sleep apneaObstructive sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is the most common type of sleep apnea and is caused by obstruction of the upper airway. It is characterized by repetitive pauses in breathing during sleep, despite the effort to breathe, and is usually associated with a reduction in...
- Office of the Science Advisor of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
- Office of Secret Actions, a fictional government department in Return to Castle WolfensteinReturn to Castle WolfensteinReturn to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007. The single player game was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software...
- The Office of Special AffairsOffice of Special AffairsThe Office of Special Affairs or OSA is a department of the Church of Scientology. According to the Church, the OSA is responsible for directing legal affairs, public relations, pursuing investigations, publicizing the Church's "social betterment works," and "oversee[ing its] social reform programs"...
, a controversial department of the Church of Scientology - Official Secrets ActOfficial Secrets ActThe Official Secrets Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India and Malaysia and formerly in New Zealand for legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security.-United Kingdom:*The Official Secrets...
- Okefenokee Swamp Alliance, a conservation, protection and advocacy group
- Old Scona Academic High SchoolOld Scona Academic High SchoolOld Scona Academic High School, often referred to as Old Scona or OSA, is a high school located in the Old Strathcona district of Edmonton, Alberta. It is a small academic high school with a population of approximately 340 to 360 students...
, a school in Edmonton, Canada - Old Stone Age (PaleolithicPaleolithicThe Paleolithic Age, Era or Period, is a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered , and covers roughly 99% of human technological prehistory...
) - Online Savings AccountOnline savings accountAn online savings account is a savings account managed and funded primarily on the Internet.-Features:OSAs are often characterized by a higher interest rate or lower fees, compared with traditional savings accounts....
- Online Sexual Activity
- Ontario Soccer AssociationOntario Soccer AssociationThe Ontario Soccer Association was founded in 1901 and is one of the oldest and largest sport organizations in Canada dedicated to providing an opportunity for Ontarians to achieve their sporting goals through soccer. The OSA provides leadership, consultation and resources to the members within...
- Ontario Society of ArtistsOntario Society of ArtistsFounded in 1872, the Ontario Society of Artists is Canada's oldest continuously operating art society. The list of objectives drawn up by the founding executive included 'the fostering of Original Art in the province, the holding of Annual Exhibitions, and formation of an Art Library and Museum...
- Open Scripting Architecture for AppleScriptAppleScriptAppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. and built into Macintosh operating systems since System 7. The term "AppleScript" may refer to the scripting system itself, or to particular scripts that are written in the AppleScript language....
- Open Services ArchitectureOpen Services ArchitectureThe Open Service Access or OSA is part of the third generation mobile telecommunications network or UMTS. OSA describes how services are designed in a UMTS network....
- Open skies agreementOpen skiesOpen skies is an international policy concept which calls for the liberalization of rules and regulations on international aviation industry most specially commercial aviation - opening a free market for the airline industry...
- Open Solutions AllianceOpen Solutions AllianceThe Open Solutions Alliance is a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving adoption of comprehensive open business solutions...
- Open Spectrum Alliance
- Open Systems AdapterOpen Systems AdapterThe Open Systems Adapter is a network controller for IBM Z/OS, ES/9000 and S/390 mainframes. The OSA supports Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI connectivity.- External links :*...
, an IBM Card for Mainframe - Open systems architectureOpen systems architectureOpen systems architecture, in telecommunication, is a standard that describes the layered hierarchical structure, configuration, or model of a communications or distributed data processing system that:...
- Operation Save AmericaOperation Save AmericaOperation Save America is an organization based in Dallas, Texas, that opposes human induced abortion and its legality. In 1994, Flip Benham became the director of the organization, then called Operation Rescue National. Benham replaced Keith Tucci, who had replaced Randall Terry...
- Opportunistic Spectrum Access (AKA Smart radio, see also related article Frequency-hopping spread spectrumFrequency-hopping spread spectrumFrequency-hopping spread spectrum is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly switching a carrier among many frequency channels, using a pseudorandom sequence known to both transmitter and receiver...
) - The Optical Society (OSA)
- Optical Spectrum Analyzer
- Optical Supply of Asia
- Order of Saint Anne
- Ordo Sancti Augustini (Order of Saint AugustineOrder of Saint AugustineThe Order of St. Augustine —historically Ordo Eremitarum Sancti Augustini", O.E.S.A.), generally called Augustinians is a Catholic Religious Order, which, although more ancient, was formally created in the thirteenth century and combined of several previous Augustinian eremetical Orders into one...
), the Roman Catholic Augustinian order - Oregon Student AssociationOregon student associationThe Oregon Student Association , a non-profit organization, was established in 1975 to represent, serve and protect the collective interests of students in post-secondary education in the U.S. state of Oregon....
- Organizirana Skupnost Anarhistov (Organized Community of AnarchistsOrganized Community of AnarchistsThe Organized Community of Anarchists is a Slovenian local/regional anarchist group. It was founded in 2009 by young men and women from the Central Sava Valley , Slovenia, who had enough of suffering under the regional, national and world's neo-capitalistic regime...
), a Slovenian local/regional anarchist group. - Organization of the Secret Army, French far-right nationalist group in Algeria who fought against its independence
- The old airport code for Osaka International Airport
- OSA GroupOSA GroupThe OSA Group was an architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active from 1925 to 1930 and considered the first group of constructivist architects...
, a Constructivist architectural association of the 1920s based in the USSR - Oscilloquartz SA
- OversamplingOversamplingIn signal processing, oversampling is the process of sampling a signal with a sampling frequency significantly higher than twice the bandwidth or highest frequency of the signal being sampled...
- Orissa Society of the AmericasOrissa Society of the AmericasThe Orissa Society of the Americas, or OSA, is an organization whose stated goals are to promote the culture of the Indian state of Orissa in the United States and Canada, and to facilitate the exchange of information between Orissa and North America. Founded in 1969, OSA is registered as a 501...
a non-profit organization that promotes understanding of Oriya culture and history - OSA-OBA - Obavještajno sigurnosna / bezbjednosna agencija, an Intelligence and security agency of Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
- Oakland School for the ArtsOakland School for the ArtsOakland School for the Arts is a performing arts charter school in Oakland, California.OSA is located on the Fox Oakland Theatre at 530 18th Street across from Telegraph.On April 1, 2009 OSA was selected to be a California Distinguished School....
- OsteosarcomaOsteosarcomaOsteosarcoma is an aggressive cancerous neoplasm arising from primitive transformed cells of mesenchymal origin that exhibit osteoblastic differentiation and produce malignant osteoid...
- medicine: oncology