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'''CDA''', '''Cda''', or '''CdA''' may refer to:
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==In education==
*[[Central Delta Academy]], a private school in Mississippi
*Certified [[dental assistant]], in the United States
*[[Child Development Associate]], a credential in the early care and education
*[[Communicative Disorders Assistant]], a credential in assisting a registered Audiologist or Speech Language Pathologist, in Canada
*[[Coram Deo Academy]], a private Christian school in Flower Mound, Texas

==In law and government==
===Government agencies===
*[[Capital Development Authority]], a kind of government entity
**[[Capital Development Authority (Islamabad)]], the Capital Development Authority of Pakistan
*[[Combined Development Agency]], a uranium purchasing authority run by the US and UK government from 1948
*[[Canadian Defence Academy]], an organization in the Canadian Forces

===Laws===
*[[Communications Decency Act]], a US law found partially unconstitutional
*[[Crime and Disorder Act 1998]], a UK law

===Other uses in law and government===
*[[Chargé d'Affaires]]
*[[Confidential disclosure agreement]]
*[[Criminal defense attorney]]

==Organizations==
===Political parties and lobbying groups===
*[[Christian Democratic Alliance (South Africa)]]
*Christian Democrats of America, a [[Christian democratic]] organization in the US 
*[[Christian Democratic Appeal]], a Christian democratic party in the Netherlands
*[[College Democrats of America]], the official youth outreach arm of the US Democratic Party
*[[Conservative Democratic Alliance]], in the UK

===Other organizations===
*[[Catholic Daughters of the Americas]], a Catholic women's charitable organization
*[[Canadian Dental Association]], an association of dentists in Canada
*[[Diabetes Canada]], which was known until 2017 as the Canadian Diabetes Association
*[[Chittagong Development Authority]]
*[[Club de Deportes Antofagasta]], a Chilean football club
*[[Chinese Daoist Association]]

==In science and technology==
===In chemistry===
*[[Chiral derivatizing agent]], a type of chemical designed to react with enantiomers to indicate the enantiopurity
*[[Completely denatured alcohol]], the most heavily denatured alcohol

===In computing===
*".cda", a filename extension for a [[Compact Disc Audio track]]
*[[Cellular digital accessory]], a means to identify the software version of a mobile phone
*[[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]]

===In health and medicine===
*[[Canadian Dental Association]], an association of dentists in Canada
*[[Diabetes Canada]], which was known until 2017 as the Canadian Diabetes Association
*[[Chlorproguanil/dapsone/artesunate]], an antimalarial drug
*[[Clinical Document Architecture]], a healthcare documentation standard
*[[Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia]], a blood condition
*[[Cytidine deaminase]], an enzyme
*[[Communicative disorders assistant]], a profession

===In spaceflight===
*[[Command and data acquisition station]], in spacecraft operations
*Cosmic dust analyzer, an instrument on the [[Cassini–Huygens]] spacecraft

===In mathematics===
*[[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#Canonical discriminant analysis for k classes|linear discriminant analysis]]
*Cda, abbreviation for the orchid genus ''Cochlioda'', a synonym of ''[[Oncidium]]''
*[[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]]
*{{CdA}} or [[Drag_area | drag area]], the product of the [[drag coefficient]] and a reference area
**{{CdA}}, the drag area in [[Automobile drag coefficient#Drag area|automobile aerodynamics]]
*[[Current differencing amplifier]], amplifier taking current difference as input and voltage as output

==Other uses==
*[[Child Detection Agency]], in Disney Pixar Monster's Inc.
*[[Caran d'Ache (company)]], a Swiss fine arts products company
*[[Cardinia Road railway station]], Melbourne
*[[Coeur d'Alene (disambiguation)]], multiple meanings
*{{lang|es-DO|Compañia [[Dominicana de Aviación]]}}, an airline from the Dominican Republic
*[[Critical discourse analysis]], in critical theory
* [[Chantiers de l'Atlantique]], French shipyard
*Compressed Dry Air, term used in manufacturing and industry
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