LCA

LCA is a three-letter abbreviation which may represent any of the following:

Technology

• Landing Craft Assault, a British landing craft of the Second World War.
• Light Combat Aircraft program, pursued by India for the development of the HAL Tejas 4th generation fighter jet.
• LCA (Low Cost Apple), code name for the Apple IIe
• Liquid Crystal Attenuator
• Large commercial aircraft (LCA), passenger jetliners 100-400 passenger capacity
• Lower control arm, component of an automobile suspension
• Logic Cell Array, a Xilinx trademark for Logic Cell Array

Science

• Last Common Ancestor, the most recent common ancestor of two populations that came to be separated by a species barrier
• Latent class analysis in statistics, a set of observed discrete multivariate variables to a set of latent variables
• Longitudinal (or Lateral) Chromatic Aberration, a form of colour distortion in optical microscopes
• Life cycle assessment, or life cycle analysis, the assessment of the environmental impact of a given product or service throughout its lifespan.
• Linear Correspondence Axiom, linguistic term belonging to the theory of antisymmetry
• Lowest common ancestor, in graph theory, the lowest node in T that has both v and w as descendants
• Linked Cluster Architecture, a routing protocol for wireless mesh networks
• Logic Cell Array
• Life Cycle Architecture, step in Software Development Life Cycle following Life Cycle Objectives (LCO). During this step the architecture of the software is reviewed and validated

Medicine

• Leber's congenital amaurosis, a recessive genetic condition that causes blindness
• Left coronary artery
• Leukocyte Common Antigen

Places

• La Crescenta, California Amtrak station code
• Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus (IATA airport code)
• Saint Lucia (ISO 3166-1 country code, IOC country code)

Organizations

• Lambda Chi Alpha, one of the largest fraternities in North America.
• Last Chance for Animals, a not-for-profit animal welfare organization that produced the HBO documentary, Dealing Dogs.
• Legalise Cannabis Alliance
• Law Council of Australia
• Legal & Corporate Affairs (internal legal department, e.g. at Microsoft)
• LCA-Vision, a U.S. company providing LASIK vision services
• Life Changing Apparel
• Leeds Combined Arts

Others

• Lexington Christian Academy (disambiguation)
• Labor Condition Application (included in H-1B visa application)
• Leaving Certificate Applied, a two-year programme of the Irish Department of Education and Science
• linux.conf.au, the annual conference organised by Linux Australia
• Liquor Control Act (Manitoba ministry)
• Lutheran Church in America
• Lutheran Church of Australia
• Life Cycle Activities in project management
• Low Cost Airline
• London City Airport, a small airport in the London Docklands
• Long-term Cooperative Action, one of the two working groups at the centre of UN climate change negotiations
• Lithocholic acid