MDA

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MDA may refer to:

Companies, organizations and government bodies

• Collections Trust, formerly the Museum Documentation Association (MDA)
• MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (doing business as MDA), an international aerospace, GIS and robotics company headquartered in Canada
• 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
• Manicaland Development Association, [MDA] was a Zimbabwean NGO established to further the socio-economic development of that region of Zimbabwe, it ran a training centre at Bonda for skills development and transfer
• Marital Dissolution Agreement, a legal document required in an uncontested divorce in the case of irreconcilable differences in the state of Tennessee
• Maritime Domain Awareness, part of a U.S. Government inter-agency and international maritime security effort
• Media Development Authority, a statutory board in the Singapore government
• Medical Devices Agency, now a part of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (Hebrew: אני סימון שמיונוק מע:ר במגן דוד אדום, "I check Shmionok VAT: R Magen David Adom")
• Minnesota Department of Agriculture, (MDA)
• Missile Defense Agency, an agency of the US Department of Defense
• Moms Demand Action, an American group that advocates for increased gun control
• Movement for Democracy in Africa, a political party in Burkina Faso
• Muscular Dystrophy Association, an American organization that funds research into muscular dystrophy and other diseases
• Myanmar Dental Association, a professional association of Burmese dentists

Computing and technology

• Mail delivery agent, software that routes e-mail to its destination
• Manufacturing Defect Analyzer, detect loaded PCB production faults
• Media-dependent adapter, a module that can be inserted into a modular Ethernet switch to provide connectivity between different media types
• Message-driven architecture, an alternative name for Event-driven architecture
• Mobile document access, 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 (also called MDA or MDA card), a computer display standard
• T-Mobile MDA, series of T-Mobile branded PDA-like mobile phones

Drugs

• 2,3-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (2,3-MDA), 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-known structural isomer MDA
• 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (3,4-MDA or tenamfetamine), an empathogenic drug
• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Game design

• MDA framework, a model used in game design to analyze games

Publications

• Monthly Dragon Age, a Japanese magazine

Science and medicine

• MDa, a megadalton (one million daltons), where a dalton is a synonym for an atomic mass unit (amu)
• Malondialdehyde, organic compound with the chemical formula CH₂(CHO)₂
• Mass drug administration
• Multiple displacement amplification, a non-PCR based DNA amplification technique
• 4,4'-Methylenedianiline, an industrial chemical
• minimum detectable activity, the lowest value a detector can measure (used in radiation measurements)
• Mean Directional Accuracy (MDA), metric to evaluate a forecasting method
• MDA, a multi-disciplinary assessment

Other meanings

• MDA prescriptions are medical prescriptions for drugs covered by the Irish Misuse of Drugs Act
• MDA may refer to an anesthesiologist
• MDA (TV series), a medico-legal television show set in Australia
•  Moldova a country in Europe, MDA in ISO 3166-1 country code
• Management discussion and analysis
• Mesocyclone detection algorithm, an automated software discriminator of a mesocyclone within a thunderstorm detected by Doppler weather radar
• Metal deactivating agent, fuel additives and oil additives used to stabilize fluids by deactivating (usually by sequestering) metal ions, mostly introduced by the action of naturally occurring acids in the fuel and acids generated in lubricants by oxidative processes with the metallic parts of the systems
• Militant direct action, occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue
• Multiple discriminant analysis, a method for compressing a multivariate signal to yield a lower-dimensional signal amenable to classification
• Minimum descent altitude in an instrument approach (aviation)
• Maternally Derived Antibodies
• Music Distributors Association (MDA), an international, non-profit trade association, since 1939