OSA
OSA is an abbreviation for:
- High School Office
- Senior staff doctor, military doctor with the rank of major
- Objedinenije sowremennych architektorow , Association of Russian Constructivists Architects
- Objektträgerschnellagglutination , simple examination method to antibodies in the serum at a infectious track
- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome , a symptom caused by respiratory failure during sleep
- Oceania Swimming Association , Oceanic Swimming Federation
- Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním, os , Czech collecting society
- Office of Special Affairs , Scientology Church Secret Service
- on shelf availability , percentage at which the listed goods are actually available in the trade
- Online self-assessment , internet-based study orientation offers in the higher education sector, which enable a self-assessment of suitability for a degree or the agreement with interests and expectations
- Open Scripting Architecture , mechanism for communication between applications in Mac OS X, see AppleScript
- Open Systems Architecture , standard in telecommunications according to US Federal Standard 1037C
- Open Service Access (also Open Service Architecture ), defines how value-added services are implemented in a UMTS network
- Optical Society of America , scientific society in the field of optics and photonics
- Optical Spectrum Analyzer , electronic measuring device for displaying the frequencies contained in a signal
- Ordo Sancti Augustini , Augustinian order
- Organization for the Safety of Abrasives
- OSA Color System , the concept of a color space developed by the Optical Society of America.
- East German Savings Bank Academy
- Augustinian Order , Ordo Sancti Augustini
Osa stands for:
- 9K33 Osa , a Soviet / Russian anti-aircraft missile system
- Osa (Costa Rica) , peninsula in Costa Rica
- Osa (river) (until 1945: Ossa ), river in the Warmian-Masurian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeships, Poland
- Osa (Mikołajki) , place in the powiat Mrągowski, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, until 1930 Ossa , 1930 until 1945 Schwanhof , Sensburg district, East Prussia
- Osa (genus) , a genus from the red family of plants
- Osa (Canton) , a canton in the Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica
- Osa class , class of Soviet missile speedboats
- Villa de Osa in Kempfenhausen, a district of the municipality of Berg in the Upper Bavarian district of Starnberg
Osa is a family name for the following people:
- Aitor Osa (* 1973), Spanish cyclist
- Javier Ángel Balboa Osa (* 1985), full name of the Spanish-Equatorial Guinean soccer player Javier Balboa
- Norverto Osa (1832-1893), Colombian banker and diplomat
- Unai Osa (* 1975), Spanish cyclist
Osa is the first name of:
- Osa Johnson (1894–1953), née Osa Leighty, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker
See also:
- Ossa (disambiguation page)
