PMA

PMA may mean:

Organizations

• Pacific Maritime Association
• Pakistan Medical Association
• Pakistan Marine Academy
• Pakistan Military Academy
• People's Municipal Assembly
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Philippine Military Academy
• Photo Marketing Association Annual Convention and Trade Show
• PMA Group, a lobbying firm in the United States
• Power Marketing Administration
• Power Matters Alliance, a consortium promoting a wireless charging standard
• Prefeitura Municipal de Americana, São Paulo (Americana City Hall)
• President's Management Agenda (USA)
• Produce Marketing Association
• Publishers Marketing Association
• Puckapunyal Military Area, Australia
• Punjabi Music Awards
• IATA airport code for Pemba Airport (Tanzania)

Science and technology

• para-Methoxyamphetamine, an amphetamine derivative
• Parts Manufacturer Approval, a U.S. government approval for manufacture of aircraft parts
• Permanent magnet alternator
• Persistent migraine aura
• Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, a transient PKC stimulator
• Phosphomolybdic acid, a chemical most frequently used as a thin-layer chromatography stain
• phpMyAdmin, a remote administration tool for management of the MySQL database
• Physical Medium Attachment Sublayer, a component of networking hardware
• Poly(methyl acrylate)
• Premarket approval, a U.S. government approval for medical devices
• Pressurized Mating Adapter, for docking a Space Shuttle to the International Space Station
• Program Memory Area
• Progressive muscular atrophy, a neurodegenerative muscle-wasting disease
• Propidium monoazide, a fluorescent dye

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"
• Professional Master's in Social Sciences and Humanities, a postgraduate academic degree program

Music

• "PMA", a 2012 song by Lower Than Atlantis from their album Changing Tune
• "Positive Mental Attitude" from Bad Brains, 1982