CDA Seal

CDA, Cda, or CdA may refer to:

In education

*Central Delta Academy, a private school in Mississippi
*Certified dental assistant, in the United States
*Child Development Associate, a credential in the early care and education
*Communicative Disorders Assistant, a credential in assisting a registered Audiologist or Speech Language Pathologist, in Canada
*Coram Deo Academy, a private Christian school in Flower Mound, Texas

In law and government

Government agencies

*Capital Development Authority, a kind of government entity
**Capital Development Authority (Islamabad), the Capital Development Authority of Pakistan
*Combined Development Agency, a uranium purchasing authority run by the US and UK government from 1948
*Canadian Defence Academy, an organization in the Canadian Forces

Laws

*Communications Decency Act, a US law found partially unconstitutional
*Crime and Disorder Act 1998, a UK law

Other uses in law and government

*Chargé d'Affaires
* Confidential disclosure agreement
*Criminal defense attorney

Organizations

Political parties and lobbying groups

*Christian Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
*Christian Democrats of America, a Christian democratic organization in the US
*Christian Democratic Appeal, a Christian democratic party in the Netherlands
*College Democrats of America, the official youth outreach arm of the US Democratic Party
*Conservative Democratic Alliance, in the UK

Other organizations

*Catholic Daughters of the Americas, a Catholic women's charitable organization
*Canadian Dental Association, an association of dentists in Canada
*Diabetes Canada, which was known until 2017 as the Canadian Diabetes Association
*Club de Deportes Antofagasta, a Chilean football club
*Chinese Daoist Association

In science and technology

In chemistry

*Chiral derivatizing agent, a type of chemical designed to react with enantiomers to indicate the enantiopurity
*Completely denatured alcohol, the most heavily denatured alcohol

In computing

*".cda", a filename extension for a Compact Disc Audio track
* Cellular digital accessory, a means to identify the software version of a mobile phone
*Red Book (audio CD standard), Compact Disc Audio, the standard format for a CD
*Content Delivery Application, a component of a typical content management system

In health and medicine

*Canadian Dental Association, an association of dentists in Canada
*Diabetes Canada, which was known until 2017 as the Canadian Diabetes Association
*Chlorproguanil/dapsone/artesunate, an antimalarial drug
*Clinical Document Architecture, a healthcare documentation standard
*Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia, a blood condition
*Cytidine deaminase, an enzyme
*Communicative disorders assistant, a profession

In spaceflight

* Command and data acquisition station, in spacecraft operations
*Cosmic dust analyzer, an instrument on the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft

In mathematics

*Cantor's diagonal argument, a proof technique in set theory

Other uses on science and technology

*Canonical discriminant analysis, a type of linear discriminant analysis
*Cda, abbreviation for the orchid genus ''Cochlioda''
*Continuous descent approach, an aircraft approach method designed to reduce fuel burn and noise
*Controlled droplet application, a concept for improving the efficiency of pesticide application
* or drag area value, the product of the drag coefficient and a reference area
**, the drag area in automobile aerodynamics
* Current differencing amplifier, amplifier taking current difference as input and voltage as output

Other uses

*Caran d'Ache (company), a Swiss fine arts products company
*Coeur d'Alene (disambiguation), multiple meanings
*, an airline from the Dominican Republic
*Critical discourse analysis, in critical theory
* Chantiers de l'Atlantique, French shipyard

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