MCA

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MCA may refer to:

Astronomy

• Mars-crossing asteroid, an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars

Aviation

• Minimum crossing altitude, a minimum obstacle crossing altitude for fixes on published airways
• Medium Combat Aircraft, a 5th generation fighter aircraft being developed by India
• Macenta Airport, Guinea (by IATA code)

Biology and chemistry

• Monochloroacetic acid, carboxylic acid, manufactured by chlorinating acetic acid
• Methylcholanthrene, a carcinogen
• Methyl cyanoacrylate, an organic compound
• Metabolic control analysis, analysing how the control of fluxes and intermediate concentrations in a metabolic pathway is distributed
• Middle cerebral artery, one of the three major blood supplies to the brain

Companies

• MCA Inc., a now defunct company (originally called Music Corporation of America) and its subsidiary companies:
  • MCA Records
  • MCA Nashville Records
  • MCA Home Video, former name of Universal Studios Home Entertainment
  • MCA Music Inc. (Philippines), a Philippine branch of Universal Music Group which uses the MCA brand due to a trademark issue
• Maubeuge Construction Automobile (MCA), a subsidiary of French car manufacturer Renault

Education

• Microsoft Certified Architect, a certification available from Microsoft
• Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments—Series II, a standardized test in Minnesota

Educational institutions

• Maranatha Christian Academy, the former name of National Christian Life College, Marikina, Philippines
• Marist College Ashgrove, an Australian School
• McIntosh County Academy, a high school in McIntosh County, Georgia
• Memphis College of Art, an art school in Tennessee
• Morrison Christian Academy, an American school in Taiwan

Graduate degrees

• Master of Computer Applications, a three-year professional master's degree in computer science awarded in India
• Master in Customs Administration, a trade-related degree offered in PMI Colleges (Philippines)

Organizations

• Maharashtra Chess Association
• Malaysian Chinese Association
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an agency of the United Kingdom Government
• Medicines Control Agency, which joined with the Medical Devices Agency to become the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
• Metal Construction Association
• Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. program for aid to developing countries
• Ministry of Corporate Affairs, an Indian government ministry
• MultiCultural Aotearoa, a New Zealand political action group
• Mumbai Cricket Association, ruling body for cricket in Mumbai
• The Multicore Association, an industry association regrouping companies and universities interested in multicore computing research.

Sports

• MC Alger, a football club based in Algiers, Algeria
• Manitoba Curling Association

Technologies

• Machine Check Architecture, a method for a CPU to report hardware errors to an operating system
• Maximum credible accident, a postulated scenario that a nuclear facility must be able to withstand
• Micro Channel architecture, a type of computer bus
• Mitsubishi MCA, an emissions control approach for gasoline-powered vehicles during the 1970s
• Movable cellular automaton
• Multichannel analyzer, a gamma ray spectroscopy system for measuring counts at different voltage levels

People

• Adam Yauch (1964–2012), a.k.a. "MCA" of the Beastie Boys
• Michiel van den Bos (born 1975), a.k.a. "M.C.A.", Dutch composer

Other uses

• Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, a US financial statute passed in 1980
• Mental Capacity Act 2005, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to England and Wales.
• Motor Coach Age, the magazine of the Motor Bus Society
• Multiple correspondence analysis
• Museum of Contemporary Art (disambiguation), several museums around the world
• The US Military Commissions Act of 2006