CSA may refer to:

Arts and media

Canadian Screen Awards The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) p ...

, annual awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television *

Commission on Superhuman Activities The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features. Places Certain places fe ...

, a fictional American government agency in Marvel Comics *

Crime Syndicate of America The Crime Syndicate are teams of supervillains from one of DC Comics' parallel universes where they are the evil counterparts of the Justice League. The original team was specifically known as the Crime Syndicate of America and is sometimes abbrev ...

, DC Comics supervillains * '' C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America'', 2004 alternative history mockumentary

Law

Combined statistical area Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Ric ...

, defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget * Commission sharing agreement, in financial services *

Controlled Substances Act The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute establishing federal government of the United States, federal drug policy of the United States, U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use, and distribution of ...

, in U.S. drug policy *

Credit Support Annex A Credit Support Annex, or CSA, is a legal document which regulates credit support (collateral) for derivative transactions. It is one of the four parts that make up an ISDA Master Agreement but is not mandatory. It is possible to have an ISDA agre ...

, a legal document regulating collateral for derivative transactions

Organizations

For-profit businesses

CSA (database company) CSA (formerly ''Cambridge Scientific Abstracts'') was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007. CSA hosted databases of ab ...

(formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) *

Connectivity Standards Alliance The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), formerly the Zigbee Alliance, is a group of companies that maintain and publish the Zigbee standard and the soon to be Matter standard. The name Zigbee is a registered trademark of this group, and is not ...

(formerly Zigbee Alliance) *

Czech Airlines Czech Airlines j.s.c. (abbreviation: ČSA, cz, České Aerolinie, a.s.) is the flag carrier of the Czech Republic. Its head office is located in the Vokovice area of Prague's 6th district and its hub is Václav Havel Airport Prague. The compa ...

(ICAO designator CSA; abbreviated ČSA) * Czech Sport Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer

Government and military

Canadian Securities Administrators The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA; , ACVM) is an umbrella organization of Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators whose objective is to improve, coordinate, and harmonize regulation of the Canadian capital markets. ...

, an organization of provincial and territorial securities regulators *

Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; french: Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the ''Canadian Space Agency Act''. The president is Lisa Campbell, who took the position on September 3, 2020 ...

, the national space agency of Canada *

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency (CSA; Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ) is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growth ...

of Ethiopia *

Chief of Staff of the United States Army The chief of staff of the Army (CSA) is a statutory position in the United States Army held by a general officer. As the highest-ranking officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Army, the chief is the principal military advisor and a ...

* Civil Services Academy Lahore, Pakistan * Compliance, Safety, and Accountability, an American commercial vehicle driver safety program; see

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries and f ...

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...

, a break-away state in North America that lasted from 1861 to 1865 **

Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...

Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel The (, ''lit.'' ''Superior Audiovisual Council''), abbreviated CSA, was a French institution created in 1989 whose role was to regulate the various electronic media in France, such as radio and television. The creation of the was a measure foun ...

, a French broadcast content monitoring agency *

CSA Group The CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association; CSA) is a standards organization which develops standards in 57 areas. CSA publishes standards in print and electronic form, and provides training and advisory services. CSA is composed ...

(formerly the Canadian Standards Association, or CSA), a standards organization based in Canada *

Cyber Security Agency (Singapore) The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) is a government agency under the Prime Minister's Office, but is managed by the Ministry of Communications and Information of the Government of Singapore. It provides centralised oversight of national cyber secu ...

Professional and trade organizations and unions

* Autonomous Trade Unions Centre (Central des Syndicats Autonomes du Bénin), a trade union centre in Benin * California Society of Anesthesiologists * CarSharing Association, a federation of carsharing organizations *

Casting Society of America The Casting Society, formerly known as Casting Society of America (CSA), was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1982 as a Professional association, professional society of about 1,200 Casting (performing arts), casting directors and associate ...

* Central Student Association, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada * Civil Service Alliance, former British trade union federation * Civil Service Association, Trinidad and Tobago *

Chemical Abstracts Service CAS (formerly Chemical Abstracts Service) is a division of the American Chemical Society. It is a source of chemical information. CAS is located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Print periodicals ''Chemical Abstracts'' is a periodical index tha ...

, a division of the American Chemical Society *

Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to “promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure ...

, which promotes IT security best practices *

College Student Alliance The College Student Alliance (CSA) is a provincial advocacy organization in Ontario that represents students attending community college A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in diffe ...

, a federation of student unions, based in Ontario, Canada * Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, a New York City-based trade union *

Czech Society of Actuaries The Czech Society of Actuaries (CSA, cs, Česká společnost aktuárů) is the association of actuaries in Czechia. It aims to promote education and research in actuarial science and to mediate social and professional contacts among actuaries. The ...

Sport

Canadian Soccer Association The Canadian Soccer Association (Canada Soccer) is the governing body of soccer in Canada. It is a national organization that oversees the Canadian men's and women's national teams for international play, as well as the respective junior sides ( ...

, the governing body of soccer in Canada *

Cano Sport Academy Cano Sport Academy, simply known as Cano Sport, is an Equatorial Guinea, Equatoguinean Association football, football club based in the city of Malabo. It was founded in early 2014 by Cándido Nsue. They are the current champions of the Equatoguine ...

, a football club in Equatorial Guinea *

Centro Sportivo Alagoano Centro Sportivo Alagoano, commonly referred to as CSA, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Maceió, Alagoas. It competes in the Série C, the third tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Alagoano, the top flight ...

, a football club, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil *

Cricket South Africa Cricket South Africa (CSA) is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa. In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South Afr ...

Other organizations

* Campaign for a Scottish Assembly, an association of Scottish political parties and civic groups established in 1989 *

Canadian Snowbird Association The Canadian Snowbird Association (CSA; french: Association canadienne des « snowbirds ») is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to defending and improving the rights and privileges of travelling Canadians (the so-called ''snowbir ...

, for travelling Canadians *

Celiac Sprue Association The Celiac Sprue Association (CSA) is the largest non-profit celiac disease support group in the United States, with over 125 chapters and 65 resource units across the country, and over 10,000 members worldwide. History The Midwestern Celiac S ...

, a disease support group in the United States *

Certified Senders Alliance The Certified Senders Alliance is an email whitelist service provided by eco and the German Dialogmarketing Association (Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband). The CSA whitelist is a positive list for email bulk senders. With ISPs and email-prov ...

, a German whitelist for bulk email senders *

Child Support Agency The Child Support Agency (CSA) was a delivery arm of the Department for Work and Pensions (Child Maintenance Group) in Great Britain and the former Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland. Launched on 5 April 1993, the CSA was to ...

(UK) *

Child Support Agency Australia The Child Support Agency (CSA) was an Australian Government organisation which was established in 1988 to administer the assessment and collection of child support under the Australian Government's Child Support Scheme. In 2011, the Child Support A ...

City School of Architecture A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

, an

architecture school This is a list of architecture schools at colleges and universities around the world. An architecture school (also known as a school of architecture or college of architecture), is an institution specializing in architectural education. Africa ...

in Colombo, Sri Lanka * Colegio San Agustin (disambiguation), several Catholic schools * The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, a 1970s-1980s white supremacist group in Arkansas, United States

Science, mathematics, and technology

Mathematics and computing

Cartan subalgebra In mathematics, a Cartan subalgebra, often abbreviated as CSA, is a nilpotent subalgebra \mathfrak of a Lie algebra \mathfrak that is self-normalising (if ,Y\in \mathfrak for all X \in \mathfrak, then Y \in \mathfrak). They were introduced by � ...

Central simple algebra In ring theory and related areas of mathematics a central simple algebra (CSA) over a field ''K'' is a finite-dimensional associative ''K''-algebra ''A'' which is simple, and for which the center is exactly ''K''. (Note that ''not'' every simple a ...

* Client SMTP Authorization *

Common Scrambling Algorithm The Common Scrambling Algorithm (CSA) is the encryption algorithm used in the DVB digital television broadcasting for encrypting video streams. CSA was specified by ETSI and adopted by the DVB consortium in May 1994. It is being succeeded by CSA3, ...

Intel Communication Streaming Architecture Intel's Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA) was a mechanism used in the Intel Hub Architecture to increase the bandwidth available between a network card and the CPU. It consists of connecting directly the network controller to the Memory ...

* Curved

Surface Area The surface area of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc ...

Cross sectional area In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher- dimensional spaces. Cutting an object into slices creates many parallel cross-sections. T ...

Medicine and psychology

Cationic steroid antibiotics Ceragenins, or cationic steroid antimicrobials (CSAs), are synthetically-produced, small-molecule chemical compounds consisting of a sterol backbone with amino acids and other chemical groups attached to them. These compounds have a net positive c ...

, a family of compounds used to treat diseases *

Central sleep apnea Central sleep apnea (CSA) or central sleep apnea syndrome (CSAS) is a sleep-related disorder in which the effort to breathe is diminished or absent, typically for 10 to 30 seconds either intermittently or in cycles, and is usually associated w ...

, a sleep disorder * CernySmith Assessment, a psychological stress questionnaire * Clinical Skills Assessment exam * Cockayne syndrome A or ERCC8, a gene whose mutation causes Cockayne syndrome *

Cognitive styles analysis Cognitive styles analysis (CSA) was developed by Richard J. Riding and is the most frequently used computerized measure of cognitive styles. Although CSA is not well known in North American institutions, it is quite popular among European univers ...

, a computerized measure of cognitive styles *

Cyclosporin A Ciclosporin, also spelled cyclosporine and cyclosporin, is a calcineurin inhibitor, used as an immunosuppressant medication. It is a natural product. It is taken orally or intravenously for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, ...

, an immunosuppressant drug

Other uses in science, mathematics, and technology

Camphorsulfonic acid Camphorsulfonic acid, sometimes abbreviated CSA or 10-CSA is an organosulfur compound. Like typical sulfonic acids, it is a relatively strong acid that is a colorless solid at room temperature and is soluble in water and a wide variety of organic ...

* Cardioid

subwoofer A subwoofer (or sub) is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low-pitched audio frequencies known as bass and sub-bass, lower in frequency than those which can be (optimally) generated by a woofer. The typical frequency range for a subwoofer is ...

array *

Common Support Aircraft The Common Support Aircraft (CSA) was a proposed concept, which has been considered by the United States Navy since at least the early 1990s, to replace a number of different fixed-wing aircraft capable of operating from an aircraft carrier and w ...

* Köppen classification of

hot-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

, abbreviated Csa * Chemical Safety Assessment * Carry-save adder or

Carry-skip adder A carry-skip adder (also known as a carry-bypass adder) is an adder implementation that improves on the delay of a ripple-carry adder with little effort compared to other adders. The improvement of the worst-case delay is achieved by using sever ...

, two different types of adders *

Chief Scientific Adviser (disambiguation) Chief Scientific Adviser may refer to: * Chief Science Advisor (Canada) * Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom * Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom) * Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia) * Gov ...

CSA keyboard The CSA keyboard, or CAN/CSA Z243.200-92, is the official keyboard layout of Canada. Often referred to as ACNOR, it is best known for its use in the Canadian computer industry for the French ACNOR keyboard layout, published as CAN/CSA Z243.200- ...

layout, keyboard layout used in Canada

Other uses

Chief Scout's Award (disambiguation) The Chief Scout's Award or Chief Scout Award is a Scouting award issued by several national Scouting organizations: * Chief Scout's Award (Scouts Canada) The Chief Scout's Award is the highest award which can be achieved at the Scout level in Scout ...

Child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in sexual activities with a child (whet ...

Community-supported agriculture Community-supported agriculture (CSA model) or cropsharing is a system that connects producers and consumers within the food system closer by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms. It is an altern ...

, an alternative socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution *

Competition Stableford Adjustment In golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and ...

, a golf scoring adjustment for handicapping purposes *

Customer Service Advisor Customer service representatives, customer service advisors, customer service agents, or customer service associates interact with customers to handle complaints, process orders, and provide information about an organization’s products and servic ...

, a job title {{disambiguation