DCA
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DCA may refer to:
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Organizations
- Delta Connection Academy, a flight school at Orlando Sanford International Airport
- Diamond Council of America, a non-profit organization of professional jewelers
- Drum Corps Associates, the governing body for all-ages musical marching unit in North America
- Dartington College of Arts, near Totnes, Devon, South West England
- Dundee Contemporary Arts, an arts complex in Dundee, Scotland
- Donelson Christian Academy, a private christian shcool in suburban Nashville, Tennessee
- DanChurchAid, a Danish NGO
- Deaf Children Australia, a Melbourne based national charity for young deaf people
- Department of Civil Aviation (Thailand), the aviation authority of Thailand
- Destiny Christian Academy, a school in Oklahoma, USA
- Disney California Adventure Park, a theme park in Anaheim, California
Science and technology
- Dichloroethane, either of two chlorinated organic solvents
- Deoxycholic acid, a bile acid with a claimed potential in treatment of inflammations and cancer
- Detailed Configuration Accounting, a method for calculating atomic spectra
- Dichloroacetic acid / dichloroacetate, an organic compound with a claimed potential as a cancer treatment
- Potassium Dichloroacetate and Sodium Dichloroacetate, the crystals of dichloroacetic acid used in human clinical trials, see dichloroacetic acid
- Detrended correspondence analysis, a multivariate statistical technique widely used by ecologists
Computers
- Data Center Automation, Methodology of automating portions, or in total, tasks requiring manual intervention.
- Direct Chip Attach, a method of packaging chips onto the motherboard
- Distributed Computing Architecture, a method of computer processing
- Direct Connect Architecture, the I/O architecture of the Athlon 64 and Opteron microprocessors (cf NUMA)
- Document Content Architecture, an IBM document formatting code system
- DTS Coherent Acoustics, an audio format standard
- Dynamic Channel Allocation or Dynamic Channel Assignment, in wireless networks
Military
- Defense Communications Agency, historical name of the Defense Information Systems Agency
- Dual-Capable Aircraft
Transportation
- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, IATA code DCA, an airport in Arlington County, Virginia, serving Washington, D.C.
- Dutch Caribbean Airlines, a defunct airline based in the Netherlands Antilles
Television, film, and music
- WDCA, the MyNetworkTV station in Washington, D.C.
- Death Cult Armageddon, an album by Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir
Other uses
- Dollar cost averaging, an investment strategy
- Direct Corporate Access, a same day clearing payment service that is part of the Faster Payments Service in UK