MCA

MCA may refer to:

Archaeology

• Medieval Climatic Anomaly, an extreme and persistent drought in California and Patagonia during Medieval Time

Chodu

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

Chemistry

• Monochloroacetic Acid, carboxylic acid, manufactured by chlorinating acetic acid
• Methyl cyanoacrylate, an organic compound
• Metabolic Control Analysis, analysing how the control of fluxes and intermediate concentrations in a metabolic pathway is distributed

Nuclear technology

• Maximum credible accident, a postulated scenario that a nuclear facility must be able to withstand

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, Russian-owned public relations company with branches throughout the world, Mitrofan Caspersz & Associates

Culture

• Museum of Contemporary Art (disambiguation), several museums around the world
• Maine Center for the Arts
• Morangos com Açúcar, a Portuguese youth telenovela (2003-present)

Education

• Master of Computer Applications, a three-year Professional Master's degree in Computer Science awarded in India
• Master of Computer Auditing, a 1 year Master's degree in information technology audit awarded by University of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
• Master in Customs Administration, the highest degree offers in PMI Colleges which has something to do with tariff and customs law, import, export, and brokerage procedures and other related trade practices.

• Maranatha Christian Academy, a Marikina (Philippines)-based Christian school, now called as the National Christian Life College
• Memphis College of Art, an art school in Tennessee
• Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments—Series II, a standardized test in Minnesota.
• Morrison Christian Academy, an American school in Taiwan
• Microsoft Certified Architect, a certification available from Microsoft
• Middlesex County Academy, a high school in New Jersey
• Marist College Ashgrove, an Australian School
• McIntosh County Academy, a school in McIntosh County, Georgia

Law

• The UK Magistrates' Courts Act of 1980
• The UK Mental Capacity Act of 2005
• The US Military Commissions Act of 2006

Medicine

• Middle cerebral artery, one of the three major blood supplies to the brain
• Motorcar accident
• Methylcholanthrene, a carcinogen
• Minor consuming alcohol

Organizations

• Maharashtra Chess Association
• Malaysian Chinese Association
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an agency of the United Kingdom Government
• Mechanical Contractors Association
• Medicines Control Agency, which joined with the Medical Devices Agency to become the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. program for aid to developing countries
• MultiCultural Aotearoa, a New Zealand political action group
• Mumbai Cricket Association, ruling body for cricket in Mumbai
• Morrison Academy, a Christian international school in Taichung, Taiwan
• The Multicore Association, an industry association regrouping companies and universities interested in multicore computing research.

People

• Adam Yauch, aka "MCA" of the Beastie Boys.
• (Mister) Chris Avellone, a game designer at Obsidian Entertainment.
• Michiel van den Bos, aka "M.C.A.", Dutch composer

Publications

• Motor Coach Age, the magazine of the Motor Bus Society

Science

• Movable cellular automaton
• Metabolic cold adaptation

Sports

• Margaret Court Arena
• MC Alger

Statistics

• Multiple correspondence analysis

Technologies

• Machine check architecture
• Micro Channel architecture, a type of computer bus
• Marine Cranking Amps measurement of a Car battery
• Minimum Circuit Ampacity in electrical distribution.
• Maximum credible accident, a concept used in risk management
• Multichannel Analyzer, a common signal processing tool in scientific experiments.