MDA

MDA, mda, or variation, may refer to:

Places

• Moldova, a country in Europe with the ISO 3166-1 country code MDA

People

• A. P. Mda (1916-1993) South African political activist
• Zakes Mda (born 1948) South African author

Companies, organizations and government bodies

• Collections Trust, formerly the Museum Documentation Association
• 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
• Malaysia Design Archive, an archive in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Manicaland Development Association, 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
• 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
• MDA framework, a model used in game design to analyze games

Publications

• methods, data, analyses, academic journal for survey methodology
• Monthly Dragon Age, a Japanese magazine

Science and medicine

• mda (minimum detectable activity), lowest value a radiation detector can measure (used in measurements)
• Mean Directional Accuracy, metric to evaluate a forecasting method
• Multi-disciplinary assessment
• MDA may refer to an anesthesiologist
• Maternally Derived Antibodies
• Melanoma Differentiation-Associated protein
  • MDA5, Melanoma Differentiation-Associated protein 5

Drugs

• Mass drug administration
• 2,3-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (2,3-MDA), an amphetamine drug
• 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (3,4-MDA or tenamfetamine), an amphetamine drug
• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• MDA prescriptions are medical prescriptions for drugs covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act (Ireland)

Chemical compounds, procedures, and terminology

• Multiple displacement amplification, a non-PCR based DNA amplification technique
• 4,4'-Methylenedianiline, an industrial chemical
• Malondialdehyde, organic compound with the chemical formula CH₂(CHO)₂
• MDa, a megadalton (one million daltons), where a dalton is a synonym for an atomic mass unit (amu)

• 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

Other meanings

• MDA (TV series), a medico-legal television show set in Australia
• Management discussion and analysis
• Mesocyclone detection algorithm, an automated software discriminator of a mesocyclone within a thunderstorm detected by Doppler weather radar
• 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
• IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, screen display standard
• Minimum descent altitude in an instrument approach (aviation)
• Music Distributors Association, an international, non-profit trade association, since 1939

See also

• MDAS