MCA may refer to:
Astronomy
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Mars-crossing asteroid, an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars
Aviation
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Minimum crossing altitude, a minimum obstacle crossing altitude for fixes on published airways
* Medium Combat Aircraft, a 5th generation fighter aircraft in India's
HAL AMCA
The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) is an Indian programme to develop a fifth-generation stealth, multirole, air superiority fighter for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy which will also include sixth-generation technologies. T ...
(Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft) program
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Macenta Airport, Guinea (by IATA code)
Biology and chemistry
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MacConkey agar, a selective growth medium for bacteria
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Monochloroacetic acid, carboxylic acid, manufactured by chlorinating acetic acid
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Methylcholanthrene, a carcinogen
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Methyl cyanoacrylate, an organic compound
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Metabolic control analysis Metabolic control analysis (MCA) is a mathematical framework for describing
metabolic, signaling, and genetic pathways. MCA quantifies how variables,elastsuch as fluxes and species concentrations, depend on network parameters.
In particular, it i ...
, analysing how the control of fluxes and intermediate concentrations in a metabolic pathway is distributed
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Middle cerebral artery, one of the three major blood supplies to the brain
Climate
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Medieval Climatic Anomaly (Medieval Warm Period, also Medieval Climate Optimum), a notably warm climatic period in the North Atlantic region from about 950 to 1250.
Companies
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MCA Inc., a now defunct company (originally called Music Corporation of America) and its subsidiary companies:
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MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later became part of Universal Music Group.
Pre-history
MCA Inc., a powerful talent agency and a television production company, entered the recorded music business in 1962 wi ...
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MCA Nashville Records
** MCA Home Video, former name of
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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MCA Music Inc. (Philippines), a Philippine branch of Universal Music Group which uses the MCA brand due to a trademark issue
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Maubeuge Construction Automobile (MCA), a subsidiary of French car manufacturer Renault
* Minato Communications Association, a former company name of the
Education
Degrees
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Master in Customs Administration, a trade-related graduate degree offered in PMI Colleges in the Philippines
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Master of Computer Applications
A Master of Science in Information Technology (abbreviated M.Sc.IT, MScIT or MSIT) is a master's degree in the field of information technology awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. The MSIT degree is de ...
, a postgraduate degree in computer science offered in India
Educational institutions
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Marist College Ashgrove
, motto_translation = Act Courageously
, location = Ashgrove, Brisbane, Queensland
, country = Australia
, coordinates =
, pushpin_map = Australia Queensland
, pushpin_im ...
, an Australian School
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McIntosh County Academy, a high school in McIntosh County, Georgia, United States
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Memphis College of Art, an art school in Tennessee, United States
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Morrison Christian Academy
Morrison Academy () is an international Christian school founded 1952 in Taichung, Taiwan. It primarily caters to the children of missionaries. Beyond the original Taichung location it also maintains a campus in Taipei and Morrison Academy Kaoh ...
, an American school in Taiwan
Professional courses
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Microsoft Certified Architect
Microsoft Certified Professional was a certification program from Microsoft.
Overview
Microsoft Certifications are earned by passing exams aligned to a specific certification. The process of earning certification has changed multiple times sinc ...
, a certification available from Microsoft
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Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments—Series II, a standardized test in Minnesota
Legal
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Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, a US financial statute passed in 1980
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Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to England and Wales. Its primary purpose is to provide a legal framework for acting and making decisions on behalf of adults who lack the capacity ...
, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to England and Wales
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Military Commissions Act of 2006
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, also known as HR-6166, was an Act of Congress signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. The Act's stated purpose was "to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of ...
, US legislation
Organizations
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Maharashtra Chess Association
The Maharashtra Chess Association (MCA) is the apex body for the game of chess in Maharashtra, India. It was formed in 1963 and is affiliated with the All India Chess Federation.
History
The first chess association in Maharashtra is South Mahara ...
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Malaysian Chinese Association
The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA; zh, 马来西亚华人公会; ; ta, மலேசிய சீனர் சங்கம், initially known as the Malayan Chinese Association) is a uni-racial List of political parties in Malaysia, pol ...
, a political party in Malaysia
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Maritime and Coastguard Agency
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom that responsible for implementing British and international maritime law and safety policy. It works to prevent the loss of lives at sea and to prevent marine ...
, an agency of the United Kingdom Government
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Medal Collectors of America
*Medicines Control Agency, which merged with the Medical Devices Agency to become the
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 acceptabl ...
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Metal Construction Association
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Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. program for aid to developing countries
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Ministry of Corporate Affairs, an Indian government ministry
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MultiCultural Aotearoa, a New Zealand political action group
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Mumbai Cricket Association, ruling body for cricket in Mumbai
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Multicore Association, an industry association regrouping companies and universities interested in multicore computing research.
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Museum of Contemporary Art (disambiguation) Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to:
Africa
* Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi
Asia East Asia
* Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...
, numerous museums around the world
People
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Adam Yauch (1964–2012), a.k.a. "MCA", of the Beastie Boys
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Michiel van den Bos (born 1975), a.k.a. "M.C.A.", Dutch composer
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Chris Avellone (born 1971), a.k.a. "MCA", American video game designer
Sports
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MC Alger
Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1921 and its colours are red, green and white. Their home s ...
, a football club based in Algiers, Algeria
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Manitoba Curling Association, Manitoba, Canada
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Maharashtra Cricket Association, Pune, India
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Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune, India
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Mumbai Cricket Association, Mumbai, India
Technology
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Machine Check Architecture, a method for a CPU to report hardware errors to an operating system
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Maximum credible accident, a postulated scenario that a nuclear facility must be able to withstand
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Micro Channel architecture
Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers until the mid-1990s. Its name is commonly abbreviated as "MCA", alt ...
, a type of computer bus
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Mitsubishi MCA, an emissions control approach for gasoline-powered vehicles during the 1970s
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Movable cellular automaton
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Multichannel analyzer, instrument recording pulse counts at a range of (esp. photon energy) levels
Other uses
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Medieval Climate Anomaly
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Metropolitan Church Association, Methodist denomination in the holiness movement
* ''Motor Coach Age'', the magazine of the
Motor Bus Society
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Multiple correspondence analysis In statistics, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a data analysis technique for nominal categorical data, used to detect and represent underlying structures in a data set. It does this by representing data as points in a low-dimensional Eucl ...
* The
Maká language
Maká is a Matacoan language spoken in Paraguay by the Maká people. Its 1,500 speakers live primarily in Presidente Hayes Department near the Río Negro, as well as in and around Asunción.
Phonology
Velar consonants alternate with palata ...
(ISO 639-3 Code)
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