HCA may refer to:

Courts

High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is Australia's apex court. It exercises Original jurisdiction, original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified within Constitution of Australia, Australia's Constitution. The High Court was established fol ...

, the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia

Organizations

Europe

Hall–Carpenter Archives The Hall–Carpenter Archives (HCA), founded in 1982, are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain, following the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. The archives are named after the authors Marguerite Radclyffe H ...

, an archive of materials related to gay activism in Britain *

Heidelberg Center for American Studies The University of Heidelberg's Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) is a higher education and research center. It was founded in 2004, making it the newest institute of Germany's oldest university. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies ...

, an institute at Heidelberg University, Germany *

Helsinki Citizens' Assembly The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (hCa) is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe. It is a non-governmental organization, working on the notions of fundamental rights and freedoms, peace, democracy and pl ...

, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe *

Heritage Crafts Association The Heritage Crafts Association is a registered United Kingdom charity set up to support and promote traditional crafts. Since October 2021 it has been operating under the name Heritage Crafts. The charity was launched at the Victoria & Albert Mus ...

, a UK charity that helps to preserve traditional hand crafts *

Homes and Communities Agency Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). HCA in turn was established by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2 ...

, a UK non-departmental public body

United States

* Heritage Christian Academy (disambiguation), several private Christian schools: **

Heritage Christian Academy (Fort Collins, Colorado) Heritage Christian Academy is an independent, private, non-denominational Christian K–12 school in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, with grades pre-kindergarten (four years old) through twelfth grade. It was formed by families and ...

Heritage Christian Academy (Texas) Heritage Christian Academy is a private K-12 Christian school located in Rockwall, Texas Rockwall is a city in Rockwall County, Texas, United States, which is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. It is the county seat of Rockwall County. T ...

Heritage Christian Academy (Kansas) Heritage Christian Academy is a private Christian school with campuses in Overland Park, Kansas and Olathe, Kansas. It serves pre-kindergarten through grade 12. History History of Berean Christian School Berean Christian Academy was formed ...

Heritage Christian Academy (Minnesota) Heritage Christian Academy is a private Christian school which educates children from Kindergarten Development class for three-year-olds through the high school grades. It is an outreach ministry of Grace Free Lutheran Church, formerly Medicine La ...

Heritage Christian Academy (New Jersey) Heritage Christian Academy (HCA) is a private Christian school located in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States. Heritage Christian Academy opened in 1988 as a ministry of Heritage Baptist Church under the leadership of its founder, Darrell W. S ...

* Hopkins Consulting Agency, a student-run technology consulting company at The Johns Hopkins University *

Hospital Corporation of America HCA Healthcare is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owns and operates 186 hospitals and approximately 2,000 sites of care, including sur ...

, an operator of health care facilities

Other organizations

Hillcrest Christian Academy Hillcrest is a town in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Organisationally and administratively it is included in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality as a suburb of the Outer West region. History Hillcrest was formerly a sleepy vill ...

, an independent primary school in South Africa *

Holy Child Academy Holy Child Academy or "HCA", colloquially pronounced as , is a secondary school run by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pagadian in Pagadian City, Philippines. HCA is the oldest among the Diocesan Schools of Pagadian and the second oldest school ...

, a Catholic school in Pagadian City, Philippines

Science and technology

Heterocyclic amine Heterocyclic amines, also sometimes referred to as HCAs, are chemical compounds containing at least one heterocyclic ring, which by definition has atoms of at least two different elements, as well as at least one amine (nitrogen-containing) group. ...

, a type of chemical compound containing at least one heterocyclic ring *

Hexachloroacetone Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula (Cl3C)2CO. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substitut ...

, an organic compound also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone * Hierarchical cluster analysis, a method of cluster analysis used in data mining * High content analysis, a laboratory microscopic technique *

Host channel adapter In computer hardware, a host controller, host adapter, or host bus adapter (HBA), connects a computer system bus, which acts as the host system, to other computer network, network and computer storage, storage devices. The terms are primarily ...

, in electronic communications *

Hydroxycitric acid Hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is a derivative of citric acid that is found in a variety of tropical plants including '' Garcinia cambogia'' and ''Hibiscus sabdariffa''. There are four isomers, (+)- and (-)-hydroxycitric acid, and (+)- and (-)-allo-hyd ...

* Holloway Cut Advisor, a method of rating brilliant cut diamonds * Hot Cranking Amps, a measurement of the current provided by a

car battery An automotive battery or car battery is a rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle. Its main purpose is to provide an electric current to the electric-powered starting motor, which in turn starts the chemically-powered intern ...

* Hydrographic Commission on Antarctica

Other uses

* HCA (classification), a para-cycling classification * HC Andersen (band), Finnish rock band *

Healthcare Assistant Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) are paraprofessionals who assist individuals with physical disabilities, mental impairments, and other health care needs with their activities of daily living (ADLs). UAPs also provide bedside care—includ ...

, a UK name for a job class of medical paraprofessionals *

Hennepin Center for the Arts The Hennepin Center for the Arts (HCA) is an art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It occupies a building on Hennepin Avenue constructed in 1888 as a Masonic Temple. The building was designed by Long and Kees in the Richardsonian ...

, a building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US *

Historical cost accounting In accounting, an economic item's historical cost is the original nominal monetary value of that item. Historical cost accounting involves reporting assets and liabilities at their historical costs, which are not updated for changes in the items' v ...

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