title: MDA
text: # 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)
  