# CDA

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**CDA**, **Cda**, or **CdA** may refer to:

## In education

- [Central Delta Academy](/source/Central_Delta_Academy), a private school in Mississippi
- Certified [dental assistant](/source/Dental_assistant), in the United States
- [Child Development Associate](/source/Child_Development_Associate), a credential in the early care and education
- [Communicative Disorders Assistant](/source/Communicative_Disorders_Assistant), a credential in assisting a registered Audiologist or Speech Language Pathologist, in Canada
- [Coram Deo Academy](/source/Coram_Deo_Academy), a private Christian school in Flower Mound, Texas

## In law and government

### Government agencies

- [Capital Development Authority](/source/Capital_Development_Authority), a kind of government entity - [Capital Development Authority (Islamabad)](/source/Capital_Development_Authority_(Islamabad)), the Capital Development Authority of Pakistan
- [Combined Development Agency](/source/Combined_Development_Agency), a uranium purchasing authority run by the US and UK government from 1948
- [Canadian Defence Academy](/source/Canadian_Defence_Academy), an organization in the Canadian Forces

### Laws

- [Communications Decency Act](/source/Communications_Decency_Act), a US law found partially unconstitutional
- [Crime and Disorder Act 1998](/source/Crime_and_Disorder_Act_1998), a UK law

### Other uses in law and government

- [Chargé d'Affaires](/source/Charg%C3%A9_d'Affaires)
- [Confidential disclosure agreement](/source/Confidential_disclosure_agreement)
- [Criminal defense attorney](/source/Criminal_defense_attorney)

## Organizations

### Political parties and lobbying groups

- [Christian Democratic Alliance (South Africa)](/source/Christian_Democratic_Alliance_(South_Africa))
- Christian Democrats of America, a [Christian democratic](/source/Christian_democratic) organization in the US
- [Christian Democratic Appeal](/source/Christian_Democratic_Appeal), a Christian democratic party in the Netherlands
- [College Democrats of America](/source/College_Democrats_of_America), the official youth outreach arm of the US Democratic Party
- [Conservative Democratic Alliance](/source/Conservative_Democratic_Alliance), in the UK

### Other organizations

- [Catholic Daughters of the Americas](/source/Catholic_Daughters_of_the_Americas), a Catholic women's charitable organization
- [Canadian Dental Association](/source/Canadian_Dental_Association), an association of dentists in Canada
- [Diabetes Canada](/source/Diabetes_Canada), which was known until 2017 as the Canadian Diabetes Association
- [Chittagong Development Authority](/source/Chittagong_Development_Authority)
- [Club de Deportes Antofagasta](/source/Club_de_Deportes_Antofagasta), a Chilean football club
- [Chinese Daoist Association](/source/Chinese_Daoist_Association)

## In science and technology

### In chemistry

- [Chiral derivatizing agent](/source/Chiral_derivatizing_agent), a type of chemical designed to react with enantiomers to indicate the enantiopurity
- [Completely denatured alcohol](/source/Completely_denatured_alcohol), the most heavily denatured alcohol

### In computing

- ".cda", a filename extension for a [Compact Disc Audio track](/source/Compact_Disc_Audio_track)
- [Cellular digital accessory](/source/Cellular_digital_accessory), a means to identify the software version of a mobile phone
- [Red Book (audio CD standard)](/source/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)), Compact Disc Audio, the standard format for a CD
- Content Delivery Application, a component of a typical [content management system](/source/Content_management_system)

### In health and medicine

- [Canadian Dental Association](/source/Canadian_Dental_Association), an association of dentists in Canada
- [Diabetes Canada](/source/Diabetes_Canada), which was known until 2017 as the Canadian Diabetes Association
- [Chlorproguanil/dapsone/artesunate](/source/Chlorproguanil/dapsone/artesunate), an antimalarial drug
- [Clinical Document Architecture](/source/Clinical_Document_Architecture), a healthcare documentation standard
- [Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia](/source/Congenital_dyserythropoietic_anemia), a blood condition
- [Cytidine deaminase](/source/Cytidine_deaminase), an enzyme
- [Communicative disorders assistant](/source/Communicative_disorders_assistant), a profession

### In spaceflight

- [Command and data acquisition station](/source/Command_and_data_acquisition_station), in spacecraft operations
- Cosmic dust analyzer, an instrument on the [Cassini–Huygens](/source/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens) spacecraft

### In mathematics

- [Cantor's diagonal argument](/source/Cantor's_diagonal_argument), a proof technique in set theory

### Other uses on science and technology

- Canonical discriminant analysis, a type of [linear discriminant analysis](/source/Linear_discriminant_analysis#Canonical_discriminant_analysis_for_k_classes)
- Cda, abbreviation for the orchid genus *Cochlioda*, a synonym of *[Oncidium](/source/Oncidium)*
- [Continuous descent approach](/source/Continuous_descent_approach), an aircraft approach method designed to reduce fuel burn and noise
- Controlled droplet application, a concept for improving the efficiency of [pesticide application](/source/Pesticide_application)
- or [drag area](/source/Drag_area), the product of the [drag coefficient](/source/Drag_coefficient) and a reference area - , the drag area in [automobile aerodynamics](/source/Automobile_drag_coefficient#Drag_area)
- [Current differencing amplifier](/source/Current_differencing_amplifier), amplifier taking current difference as input and voltage as output

## Other uses

- [Child Detection Agency](/source/Child_Detection_Agency), in Disney Pixar Monster's Inc.
- [Caran d'Ache (company)](/source/Caran_d'Ache_(company)), a Swiss fine arts products company
- [Cardinia Road railway station](/source/Cardinia_Road_railway_station), Melbourne
- [Coeur d'Alene (disambiguation)](/source/Coeur_d'Alene_(disambiguation)), multiple meanings
- *Compañia [Dominicana de Aviación](/source/Dominicana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n)*, an airline from the Dominican Republic
- [Critical discourse analysis](/source/Critical_discourse_analysis), in critical theory
- [Chantiers de l'Atlantique](/source/Chantiers_de_l'Atlantique), French shipyard
- Compressed Dry Air, term used in manufacturing and industry

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