MDA
# MDA

MDA, mda, or variation, may refer to:

## Places

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

## Politics

* Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (2018), ruling coalition government in the Indian State of Meghalaya led by National People's Party
* Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (2003), coalition government in the Indian State of Meghalaya led by Indian National Congress

## 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, a U.K.-based charity
* Everytown for Gun Safety or Moms Demand Action, an American group that advocates for increased gun control
* 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
* Maritime domain awareness, part of a U.S. Government inter-agency and international maritime security effort
* Maxar Technologies, a Canadian-American aerospace company formerly called MDA prior to 2018
* MDA (company), a Canadian aerospace technology company
* Media Development Authority, a now-defunct statutory board in the Singapore government, now part of Infocomm Media Development Authority
* Medical Devices Agency, now a part of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
* Medical Device Authority (pihak berkusa peranti perubatan) of Malaysia
* Minnesota Department of Agriculture
* Missile Defense Agency, an agency of the US Department of Defense
* 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
* Mechanical design automation, a branch of computer-aided design
* 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
* Mobile digital assistant, 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

* Maternally derived antibodies, or maternal antibodies naturally acquired, a type of passive immunity
* Mean directional accuracy, metric to evaluate a forecasting method
* Minimum detectable activity, the lowest value a radiation detector can measure within the human body
* 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 known for its recreational use
* 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

* Malondialdehyde, organic compound with the chemical formula $CH_2(CHO)_2$
* Medium-density amorphous ice, a form of water
* Metal deactivator or metal deactivating agent, fuel additives and oil additives used to stabilize fluids by deactivating metal ions
* Multiple displacement amplification, a non-PCR based DNA amplification technique
* 4,4'-Methylenedianiline, an industrial chemical
* MDa, a megadalton (one million daltons), where a dalton is a synonym for an atomic mass unit (amu)

## 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
* 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)
