MDA

MDA may refer to:

Companies, organizations and government bodies

• Collections Trust, formerly the Museum Documentation Association (MDA)
• MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (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
• Manicaland Development Association
• 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 in Minnesota
• Missile Defense Agency, an agency of the US Department of Defense
• Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, 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

Drugs

• 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (tenamfetamine), an empathogenic drug
• Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Game design

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

Publications

• Monthly Dragon Age, a Japanese magazine

Science and medicine

• MDa, a megadalton (one million daltons), where a dalton is a synonym for an atomic mass unit (amu).
• Malondialdehyde, organic compound with the chemical formula CH₂(CHO)₂.
• Mass drug administration
• 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)
• Mean Directional Accuracy (MDA), metric to evaluate a forecasting method
• MDA, a multi-disciplinary assessment

Other meanings

• MDA prescriptions are medical prescriptions for drugs covered by the Irish Misuse of Drugs Act
• MDA may refer to an anesthesiologist
• MDA (TV series), a medico-legal television show set in Australia
•  Moldova a country in Europe, MDA in ISO 3166-1 country code
• Management discussion and analysis
• Mesocyclone detection algorithm, an automated software discriminator of a mesocyclone within a thunderstorm detected by Doppler weather radar
• Metal deactivating agent
• Militant direct action
• Multiple discriminant analysis
• Minimum descent altitude in an instrument approach (aviation)
• Maternally Derived Antibodies
• Music Distributors Association (MDA), an international, non-profit trade association, since 1939

Academe

• Master's in Development Administration, a master's level professional degree