"MCA" meaning in English

See MCA in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper-noun}} MCA
  1. (Malaysian politics) Initialism of Malaysian Chinese Association. (political party for Malaysian Chinese) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Malaysian Chinese Association (extra: political party for Malaysian Chinese) Categories (topical): Malaysian politics, Malaysian politics, Organizations
    Sense id: en-MCA-en-name-Ohb0qIy6 Disambiguation of Malaysian politics: 74 13 4 1 4 5 Disambiguation of Organizations: 33 7 8 2 41 9 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

Forms: MCAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} MCA (countable and uncountable, plural MCAs)
  1. (astronomy) Initialism of Mars-crossing asteroid. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Mars-crossing asteroid Categories (topical): Astronomy, Mars (planet)
    Sense id: en-MCA-en-noun-0BUqJPWX Disambiguation of Mars (planet): 6 54 9 1 21 9 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
  2. (aviation) Initialism of minimum crossing altitude. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: minimum crossing altitude Categories (topical): Aviation
  3. A master in computer science and application. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-MCA-en-noun-ToeF0DHE
  4. (anatomy) Initialism of middle cerebral artery. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: middle cerebral artery Categories (topical): Anatomy, Organizations
    Sense id: en-MCA-en-noun-cpIdR5b1 Disambiguation of Organizations: 33 7 8 2 41 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 10 14 0 45 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 12 11 1 50 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 11 10 1 57 16 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} MCA (uncountable)
  1. (computing) Microchannel Architecture, a computer bus standard (expansion bus) for connecting of internal components. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: Microchannel Architecture, Microchannel Related terms: AT Attachment, local bus, S100, NuBus Coordinate_terms: AGP, PCI, PCIe, VLB Coordinate_terms (ISA): AT bus, PC bus, EISA
    Sense id: en-MCA-en-noun-JWjZWr8k Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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