CA

CA

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Canada.

   Synonym: CAN (alpha-3)

CA

1. (geography) Abbreviation of California, a state of the United States, North America
2. (geography) Abbreviation of Canada, a country in North America
3. (Canada, politics) Initialism of Canadian Alliance, Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, Reform-Conservative Alliance Party
4. (software, computing) Initialism of Computer Associates, an American software company.
5. (sports, cricket) Abbreviation of Cricket Australia, the governing body of cricket in Australia.

• (Canadian politics): CRAP, RCAP

CA (countable and uncountable, plural CAs)

1. (computing) Initialism of cellular automaton.
   • 2012 July 3, Mike James, “A New Computational Universe - Fredkin's SALT CA”, in www.i-programmer.info‎, retrieved 2012-10-25:

     The new CA is a modification of Fredkin's earlier SALT architecture in which every cell is identified as either even or odd - as in sodium and chlorine in a salt crystal hence the name. The state of each cell is either up or down and the development rule simple takes account of states of odd and even neighbours. The up-date at each time step simply takes the form of a swap of the states of diagonally related cells. SALT CAs are reversible and capable of universal computation and are conjectured to be capable of universal construction in the sense of Von Neumann.

2. (computing) Initialism of certificate authority.
   • 2003, Kapil Raina, PKI Security Solutions for the Enterprise (page 30)

     Well-designed CAs will create a trust hierarchy, which consists of a root with a number of subroots, to further enhance protection of the private key.

3. (US, nautical) Initialism of armored cruiser, a type of warship
4. (US, nautical) Initialism of heavy cruiser, a variant of the cruiser type of warship
5. (US, military) Initialism of civil affairs, a military occupational specialty or branch
6. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of cyanoacrylate.
7. (Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, accounting) Initialism of chartered accountant.
8. (Japan) Initialism of cabin attendant.
9. Initialism of central authority.
10. (UK, law) Initialism of Companies Act.
11. (TTY/TDD) Initialism of communications assistant.
12. Initialism of closed access, as opposed to open access.

• (Canadian politics): LPC, CPC, NDP, BQ, CCF, PC
• (US navy): CL, CC, CV, BC
• (accountant):
  • CPA, CMA, CGA
  • Chartered Accountant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -ac, A.C., A/C, AC, Ac, a-c, a.c., a/c, ac, ac-, ac.

• IPA^(key): /se.a/

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CA m (plural CAs)

1. Abbreviation of conseil d'administration.
2. (Canada, accounting) CA; Initialism of comptable agréé (“chartered accountant”).

Initialism of English cabin attendant

C(シー)A(エー) • (shīē) 

1. flight attendant

• 客(きゃく)室(しつ)乗(じょう)務(む)員(いん) (kyakushitsu jōmuin)
• キャビンアテンダント (kyabin atendanto)
• スチュワーデス (suchuwādesu, literally “stewardess”)

CA f (uncountable)

1. (electricity) Abbreviation of corrente alternada. AC

CA f (uncountable)

1. Initialism of corriente alterna (“AC or alternating current”).

CA f (plural CC. AA.)

1. Initialism of comunidad autónoma.

CA m (plural CC. AA.)

1. Initialism of centro de alumnos.