NCA
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NCA is a three-letter acronym
, which may refer to the:
Three-letter acronym
A three-letter acronym, three-letter abbreviation, or TLA is an abbreviation, specifically an acronym, alphabetism, or initialism, consisting of three letters...
, which may refer to the:
- Constitutional Assembly of Zimbabwe
- National Campaign for the ArtsNational Campaign for the ArtsThe National Campaign for the Arts is a lobbying group for the arts in the United KingdomFounded in 1985, NCA claims to be the UK's only independent lobbying organization representing all the arts.- Structure :...
, a lobbying group for the arts in the United Kingdom - National Capital AuthorityNational Capital AuthorityThe National Capital Authority is a body of the Australian Government that was established to manage the Commonwealth's interest in the planning and development of Canberra as the capital city of Australia....
, a government authority involved in development planning for the Australian Capital Territory - National Charter Association of Great Britain and Ireland, a radical campaigning organisation founded in the mid 1800s to foster the aims of ChartismChartismChartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, between 1838 and 1859. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world...
- National Cheerleaders AssociationNational Cheerleaders AssociationThe National Cheerleaders Association was established as a way to bring cheerleaders together to learn new skills. From 1949 on the NCA held summer camps, and is credited with the invention of the herkie jump, the pom pon and being the first uniform manufacturer-History:The NCA was founded in 1948...
, an organization that holds cheer camps and competitions. - National Coffee AssociationNational Coffee AssociationThe National Coffee Association or , is the main market research, consumer information, and lobbying association for the coffee industry in the United States....
, a United States coffee industry body - National College of ArtsNational College of ArtsThe National College of Arts Lahore, usually referred to by its acronym NCA, is a famous old college in Lahore, Pakistan.Like all old institutions, the National College of Arts, has a historical tradition. Much of its present tone was set long ago when it was known as the Mayo School of Arts...
in Lahore, Pakistan - National Command AuthorityNational Command AuthorityNational Command Authority is a term used by the Department of Defense of the United States of America to refer to the ultimate lawful source of military orders. The NCA comprises the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense jointly, or their duly deputized successors, i.e...
, a United States military term for the combined authority of the President and the Secretary of Defense - National Communication AssociationNational Communication AssociationThe National Communication Association is the largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education. A non-profit organization that has over 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students who work and reside in every state and more than 20 countries...
, an American organization which works to promote the academic discipline of Communication Studies - National Computerization AgencyNational Computerization Agencythumb|Symbol of National Computerization AgencyThe Korea National Computerization Agency is a statutory government agency acting as Korea's top IT policy and technical support agency...
, a statutory agency for the purpose of promoting informatization and to support development of related policies for Korean national agencies and local autonomies - Network Computing Architecture (disambiguation):
- a protocol created by Apollo ComputerApollo ComputerApollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s...
which formed the basis of DCE/RPCDCE/RPCDCE/RPC, short for "Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Calls", is the remote procedure call system developed for the Distributed Computing Environment...
; Apollo implemented their protocol in their Network Computing SystemNetwork Computing SystemThe Network Computing System was an implementation of the Network Computing Architecture . It was created at Apollo Computer in the 1980s... - an architecture by Oracle CorporationOracle CorporationOracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
- a protocol created by Apollo Computer
- National Conservation AreaNational Conservation AreaNational Conservation Area is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. National Conservation Areas are managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management under the National Landscape Conservation System...
, a protected area managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management - National Consumer AgencyNational consumer agencyThe National Consumer Agency is a statutory body that defends consumer interests in the Republic of Ireland.- Background :The NCA's origins can be traced to the setting up of the Consumer Strategy Group in March 2004....
, is a statutory body that defends consumer interests in the Republic of Ireland - National Cricket AcademyNational Cricket AcademyThe National Cricket Academy located in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore, Karnataka in India, established in 2000 is a cricket facility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India for training young cricketers who are identified as having the potential to represent the Indian cricket team...
, a cricket academy based in India - National Crime AuthorityNational Crime Authority of AustraliaThe National Crime Authority was an Australian law enforcement agency established in 1984.In 2003 it was superseded by the Australian Crime Commission .The NCA was set up in the wake of the Costigan Commission into tax evasion and organised crime...
, former Australian criminal investigative agency - National Cycling Association, a former sports governing body in Ireland
- Neighbourhood components analysisNeighbourhood components analysisNeighbourhood components analysis is a supervised learning method for clustering multivariate data into distinct classes according to a given distance metric over the data...
, a supervised classification technique - Neon Claims Advantage, A insurance claims processing company that specializes in glass and body shoppes
- Network Console on AcidNetwork Console on AcidThe Network Console on Acid connects a pseudo terminal to the consoles' virtual terminals on Unix-like platforms, allowing an administrator to remotely login and troubleshoot directly on the system console. It uses a version of OpenSSH that is modified so that one can securely connect to the server...
, allows remotely connected administrators to read and write directly to the console - Network of Concerned AnthropologistsNetwork of Concerned AnthropologistsThe Network of Concerned Anthropologists is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology.The network is concerned that the "war on terror" threatens to militarize anthropology in a way that undermines the integrity of the discipline...
, an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology - New Classical AdventureNew Classical AdventureNew Classical Adventure, commonly referred to as NCA, is a classical music record label based in Hamburg, Germany....
, NCA record label editing classical CDs, Hamburg, Germany - Nexus Computing Agents, trusted software programs in Microsoft'sMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
delayed NGSCBNext-Generation Secure Computing BaseThe Next-Generation Secure Computing Base , formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement parts of the controversial "Trusted Computing" concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. NGSCB is part of...
initiative - NicaraguaNicaraguaNicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
's IOC country code - Nice Côte d'Azur, the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Nice (France) and some of its suburbs
- Nigerian College of AccountancyNigerian College of AccountancyNigerian College of Accountancy is an educational institution in Jos, Nigeria established in 1994 that is operated by Association of National Accountants of Nigeria ....
, training institution in Jos, Nigeria - Nippon Cargo AirlinesNippon Cargo Airlines, or NCA, is a cargo airline based in the Onarimon Yusen Building in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It operates scheduled cargo services in Asia and to Europe and the North America. Its main base is Narita International Airport outside Tokyo.- History :...
, a cargo airline of JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. NCA is its ICAO code - Noise Control ActNoise Control ActThe Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972 is a statute of the United States initiating a federal program of regulating noise pollution with the intent of protecting human health and minimizing annoyance of noise to the general public....
, a U.S. law more formally known as the Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972 - Non-compete agreement, an agreement between an employer and employee prohibiting an employee from working for a competitor after separation
- Nortel Certified Architect (NCA), the highest Nortel CertificationsNortel CertificationsNortel Certifications in Network computing is an Information Technology professional certification on Nortel products and IEEE standard technologies. The Nortel Certification tests are administered by a Prometric test center. Nortel Training is done by Nortel training partners like Global...
- Norwegian Church AidNorwegian Church AidNorwegian Church Aid , "Kirkens Nødhjelp" in Norwegian, is an independent humanitarian and ecumenical organisation with headquarters in Oslo, Norway. The organisation also has offices in 65 countries worldwide and receives funding from the Norwegian Protestant church, their institutions and...
, a Norwegian charity - North Central Association of Colleges and Universities, one of six organizations that provide higher learning accreditation in the United States
- Nuclear Command Authority (disambiguation), A government body with authority over the deployment of India's nuclear weapons stockpile
- Nuevo Central ArgentinoNuevo Central ArgentinoNuevo Central Argentino S. A. is an Argentine company that exploits the operation and infrastructure of the national railway system of the former Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre division of Ferrocarriles Argentinos, by a concession granted on 23 December 1992 as part of railway privatisation...
, An Argentine railway company - National Competent Authority