MCA

MCA may refer to:

Archaeology

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

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
• Macenta Airport, Guinea (by IATA code)

Banking

• Monetary Control Act. See: Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act

Chemistry

• Manufacturing Chemists' Association, now known as the American Chemistry Council, an American chemical industry trade group
• 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
• MCA In mass-spectroscopy, multiple channel acquisition.

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 Music Inc. (Philippines), a Philippine branch of Universal Music Group which uses the MCA brand due to a trademark issue
• MCA, Russian-owned public relations company with branches throughout the world, Mitrofan Caspersz & Associates
• MCA, an akronym and alternative name for the French company Maubeuge Construction Automobile
• MotorCoach Australia a former Australian bus bodybuilder

Computer Technology

• Micro Channel, IBM proprietary computer bus interface

Culture

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

Education

Educational institutions

• Maranatha Christian Academy, the former name of National Christian Life College, Marikina, Philippines
• Marist College Ashgrove, an Australian School
• McIntosh County Academy, a high school in McIntosh County, Georgia
• Memphis College of Art, an art school in Tennessee
• Middlesex County Academy, a high school in New Jersey
• Morrison Christian Academy, an American school in Taiwan

Graduate degrees

• Master of Computer Applications, a three-year professional Master's degree in Computer Science awarded in India. (Similar to Master of Science in Information Technology).
• Master in Customs Administration, the highest degree offers in PMI Colleges (Philippines) which has something to do with tariff and customs law, import, export, and brokerage procedures and other related trade practices.

Other education

• Microsoft Certified Architect, a certification available from Microsoft
• Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments—Series II, a standardized test in Minnesota.

Law

• The UK Magistrates' Courts Act of 1980
• The UK Mental Capacity Act of 2005
• The UK Matrimonial Causes Act of 1973
• 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
• Multiple congenital anomalies

Nuclear technology

• Maximum credible accident, a postulated scenario that a nuclear facility must be able to withstand
• Multichannel analyzer, a gamma ray spectroscopy system for measuring counts at different voltage levels

Organizations

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

People

• Adam Yauch (1964–2012), aka "MCA" of the Beastie Boys
• Michiel van den Bos, aka "M.C.A.", Dutch composer
• Chris Avellone, aka "MCA" (i.e., "Mister Chris Avellone"), American video game designer

Publications

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

Science

• Movable cellular automaton

Sports

• Margaret Court Arena
• MC Alger
• Manitoba Curling Association

Statistics

• Multiple correspondence analysis

Technologies

• Machine Check Architecture, a method for a CPU to report hardware errors to an operating system
• Micro Channel architecture, a type of computer bus
• Marine Cranking Amps measurement of a car battery
• Mitsubishi MCA, an emissions control approach for gasoline-powered vehicles during the 1970s.
• mobile communications services on aircraft.