MDA, mda, or ''variation'', may refer to:

Places

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...

, a country in Europe with the ISO 3166-1 country code MDA

Politics

* Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (2018), ruling

coalition A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political or economical spaces. Formation According to ''A Gui ...

government in the Indian State of

Meghalaya Meghalaya (, or , meaning "abode of clouds"; from Sanskrit , "cloud" + , "abode") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of As ...

led by National People's Party *

Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (2003) The Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) was a coalition of political parties that formed the Government in the state of Meghalaya, India, after the 2003 Legislative Assembly election. It was headed by the Indian National Congress (INC), which w ...

government in the Indian State of

led by

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

People

A. P. Mda Ashby Solomzi Peter Mda (6 April 1916 – 7 August 1993), also known as A. P. Mda was a South African teacher, lawyer, political activist and co founder of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He was also one of the founders of the ...

(1916-1993) South African political activist *

Zakes Mda Zakes Mda ( ), legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948) is a South African novelist, poet and playwright and he is the son of politician A. P. Mda. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays. He i ...

(born 1948) South African author

Companies, organizations and government bodies

* Collections Trust, formerly the Museum Documentation Association, a U.K.-based charity * Everytown for Gun Safety or Moms Demand Action, an American group that advocates for increased gun control * Magen David Adom (Hebrew: מגן דוד אדום, "Red Star of David"), the national aid organization of Israel and affiliate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement * Malaysia Design Archive, an archive in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * Manicaland Development Association, a former Zimbabwean NGO *

Maritime domain awareness Maritime domain awareness (MDA) is defined by the International Maritime Organization as the effective understanding of anything associated with the maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy, or environment. MDA is said to w ...

, part of a U.S. Government inter-agency and international maritime security effort * Maxar Technologies, a Canadian-American aerospace company formerly called MDA prior to 2018 * MDA (company), a Canadian aerospace technology company *

Media Development Authority The Media Development Authority (abbreviation: MDA) was a statutory board of the Singapore Government, under the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). History MDA was formed on 1 January 2003 by the merger of Singapore Broadcasting ...

, a now-defunct statutory board in the Singapore government, now part of

Infocomm Media Development Authority The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is a statutory board under the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI). History Following the passing of the Info-communications Media Development Authority Bill in Parliame ...

* Medical Devices Agency, now a part of

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably ...

* Medical Device Authority (pihak berkusa peranti perubatan) of Malaysia * Minnesota Department of Agriculture * Missile Defense Agency, an agency of the US Department of Defense *

Movement for Democracy in Africa The Movement for Democracy in Africa (french: Mouvement pour la Démocratie en Afrique, MDA) is a political party in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in ...

, a political party in Burkina Faso *

Muscular Dystrophy Association The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is an American 501(c)(3) umbrella organization that works to support people with neuromuscular diseases. Founded in 1950 by Paul Cohen, who lived with muscular dystrophy, it works to combat neuromuscular di ...

, an American organization that funds research into muscular dystrophy and other diseases *

Myanmar Dental Association The Myanmar Dental Association ( my, မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သွားနှင့်ခံတွင်း ဆရာဝန်အသင်း; MDA) is a professional association established in 1979 which has more than 4,000 membe ...

, a professional association of Burmese dentists

Computing and technology

Mail delivery agent A message delivery agent (MDA), or mail delivery agent, is a computer software component that is responsible for the delivery of e-mail messages to a local recipient's mailbox., ''Internet Mail Architecture'', D. Crocker (July 2009) It is also call ...

, software that routes e-mail to its destination * Mechanical design automation, a branch of

computer-aided design Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve c ...

* Message-driven architecture, an alternative name for event-driven architecture *

Mobile document access Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...

, the retrieval of documents using a mobile computer * Model-driven architecture, a software design approach * Microconnect distributed antenna, a kind of transmitter/receiver *

IBM Monochrome Display Adapter The Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA, also MDA card, Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter, MDPA) is IBM's standard video display card and computer display standard for the IBM PC introduced in 1981. The MDA does not have any pixel-addressabl ...

(also called MDA or MDA card), a computer display standard * Mobile digital assistant, series of T-Mobile branded PDA-like mobile phones *

MDA framework In game design the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework is a tool used to analyze games. It formalizes the properties of games by breaking them down into three components: Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics. These three words have been ...

, a model used in game design to analyze games

Publications

*'' methods, data, analyses'', academic journal for survey methodology *''

Monthly Dragon Age is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Fujimi Shobo. The magazine began as a combination between ''Monthly Comic Dragon'' and ''Monthly Dragon Junior'', two former magazines published by Fujimi Shobo. The first issue was published in ...

'', a Japanese magazine

Science and medicine

* Minimum detectable activity, the lowest value a radiation detector can measure within the human body *

Mean directional accuracy Mean directional accuracy (MDA), also known as mean direction accuracy, is a measure of prediction accuracy of a forecasting method in statistics. It compares the forecast direction (upward or downward) to the actual realized direction. It is defin ...

, metric to evaluate a forecasting method * Maternally derived antibodies, or maternal antibodies naturally acquired, a type of passive immunity * MDA5, melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5

Drugs

* Mass drug administration *

2,3-Methylenedioxyamphetamine 2,3-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (2,3-MDA) or ORTHO-MDA is an amphetamine derivative which is mentioned in PIHKAL as a fairly potent and long-lasting stimulant drug, but with little or none of the entactogenic effects associated with its better-k ...

(2,3-MDA), an amphetamine drug *

3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (also known as MDA and sass) is an empathogen-entactogen, psychostimulant, and psychedelic drug of the amphetamine family that is encountered mainly as a recreational drug. In terms of pharmacology, MDA acts mo ...

(3,4-MDA or tenamfetamine), an amphetamine drug known for its recreational use *

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It represents action in line with treaty commitments under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the United Nation ...

, an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom * MDA prescriptions are medical prescriptions for drugs covered by the

Misuse of Drugs Act (Ireland) The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984, Misuse of Drugs Act 2015 and the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 are the acts of the Oireachtas regulating drugs in Ireland. The acts define the penalties for unlawf ...

Chemical compounds, procedures, and terminology

Multiple displacement amplification Multiple displacement amplification (MDA) is a DNA amplification technique. This method can rapidly amplify minute amounts of DNA samples to a reasonable quantity for genomic analysis. The reaction starts by annealing random hexamer primers to the ...

, a non-PCR based DNA amplification technique *

4,4'-Methylenedianiline 4,4′-Methylenedianiline (MDA) is an organic compound with the formula CH2(C6H4NH2)2. It is a colorless solid, although commercial samples can appear yellow or brown. It is produced on an industrial scale, mainly as a precursor to polyurethanes. ...

, an industrial chemical * Malondialdehyde, organic compound with the chemical formula CH₂(CHO)₂ * MDa, a megadalton (one million daltons), where a dalton is a synonym for an atomic mass unit (amu) *

Metal deactivator Metal deactivators, or metal deactivating agents (MDA) are fuel additives and oil additives used to stabilize fluids by deactivating (usually by sequestrant, sequestering) metal ions, mostly introduced by the action of naturally occurring acids in ...

or metal deactivating agent, fuel additives and oil additives used to stabilize fluids by deactivating metal ions

Other meanings

* ''MDA'' (TV series), a medico-legal television show set in Australia *

Management discussion and analysis Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of the financial activities and position of a business, person, or other entity. Relevant financial information is presented in a structured manner and in a form which is easy to un ...

* Mesocyclone detection algorithm, an automated software discriminator of a mesocyclone within a thunderstorm detected by Doppler weather radar *

Multiple discriminant analysis Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) is a multivariate dimensionality reduction technique. It has been used to predict signals as diverse as neural memory traces and corporate failure. MDA is not directly used to perform classification. It merel ...

, a method for compressing a multivariate signal to yield a lower-dimensional signal amenable to classification *

, screen display standard * Minimum descent altitude in an instrument approach (aviation)