MDA

MDA may refer to:

Companies, organizations and government bodies

• Marshall Day Acoustics, an acoustics and noise control consultancy
• Maritime Domain Awareness, part of a U.S. Government interagency and international maritime security effort
• MDA (museums), formerly the Museum Documentation Association
• MacDonald Dettwiler (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates), a Canadian company
• 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
• Mechatronics Design Association, a student association at the University of Toronto
• Media Development Authority, a statutory board in the Singapore government
• Missile Defense Agency, an agency of the Department of Defense
• Muscular Dystrophy Association
• Marital Dissolution Agreement, legal document required in an uncontested divorce in the state of Tennessee
• Medical Devices Agency, now a part of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Computing and technology

• Mobile Digital Assistant
  • T-Mobile MDA, a series of T-Mobile branded PDA like mobile phones
• Mail delivery agent, software that routes e-mail to its destination
• Microconnect Distributed Antennae, a kind of transmitter/receiver
• Mobile document access, the retrieval of documents using a mobile computer
• Model-driven architecture, a software design approach
• Message-driven architecture, an alternative name for Event-driven architecture
• IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, a computer display standard
• Manufacturing Defect Analyzer, detect loaded PCB production faults.

Game design

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

Publications

• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c.38)
• Monthly Dragon Age, a Japanese magazine

Science

• Malondialdehyde, is the organic compound with the formula CH₂(CHO)₂.
• MDa, a megadalton, or one million (10⁶) daltons, where a dalton is a synonym for an atomic mass unit or amu.
• 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine aka MDA, used as a recreational drug.
• 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)

Other meanings

• Militant Direct Action
• MDA prescriptions are medical prescriptions for drugs covered by the Irish Misuse of Drugs Act
• MDA may refer to an anesthesiologist
• MDA (TV series), Medical Defence Australia, a medico-legal television show set in Australia
• Master's in Development Administration, a master's level professional degree
• Moldova a country in Europe, MDA in ISO 3166-1 country code
• Multiple discriminant analysis
• Metal Deactivating Agent
• Minimum Descent Altitude in an Instrument approach (aviation)
• MDA may refer to Management Discussion and Analysis