Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MDA

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Definitions of MDA

1. (military, US) Initialism of Missile Defense Agency.
2. (electronics, mobile) Initialism of mobile data assistant.
3. (software, design) Initialism of message-driven architecture.
4. (software, design) Initialism of model-driven architecture.
5. (uncountable, computing) Initialism of monochrome display adapter.
6. (countable, software, e-mail) Initialism of mail delivery agent.
7. (aviation) Initialism of minimum descent altitude.
8. (uncountable, organic compound) Initialism of malondialdehyde.
9. (uncountable, pharmacology) Initialism of methylenedioxyamphetamine, especially 3,4-methylene​dioxy​amphetamine.
10. (physics, chemistry) Initialism of medium-density amorphous ice ("a form of H₂O water ice, with a density like that of liquid water").

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Examples of Using MDA in a Sentence

• The MTA, using a suitable mail delivery agent (MDA), adds email messages to a client's storage as they arrive.
• When the IBM Personal Computer was launched in 1981, it had two graphics cards available: the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and the Monochrome Display And Printer Adapter (MDA).
• Some known companies involved in space programs include Boeing, Cobham, Airbus, SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, United Technologies, MDA and Northrop Grumman.
• When the first IBM PC was designed in 1980, it included a "peseta symbol" "Pt" in the ROM of the Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) and Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) video output cards' hardware, with the code number 158.
• Bogofilter may be run by a MDA or mail client to classify messages as they are delivered to recipient mailboxes, or be used by a MTA to classify messages as they are received from the sending SMTP server.
• A message delivery agent (MDA), or mail delivery agent, is a computer software component that is responsible for the delivery of e-mail messages to a local recipient's mailbox.
• McMahon also hosted the original Star Search from 1983 to 1995, co-hosted TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes with Dick Clark from 1982 to 1998, presented sweepstakes for American Family Publishers, annually co-hosted the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon from 1973 to 2008 and anchored the team of NBC personalities conducting the network's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade during the 1970s and 80s.
• She was the spokesperson for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) in Puerto Rico and a sponsor of the association's telethon.
• Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that two men, both in their 70s, and a 16-year-old girl were wounded by shrapnel.
• The MSS was designed and manufactured by MDA, (previously divisions of MacDonald Dettwiler Associates called MDA Space Missions, MD Robotics, and previously called SPAR Aerospace) for the Canadian Space Agency's contribution to the International Space Station.
• The MDA model is related to multiple standards, including the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Meta-Object Facility (MOF), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC), the Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM), and the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).
• Although MDA currently staffs approximately 4,000 emergency medical technicians (EMTs), paramedics and emergency physicians, it still relies heavily on over 26,000 volunteers who serve in both operational and administrative capacities.
• In 1966, channel 10 was one of the founding members of the "Love Network" that aired the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon every Labor Day until 2012, when it moved from first-run syndication to ABC as a short-form telecast and was renamed the MDA Show of Strength, and ended in 2014 when MDA discontinued the event on May 1, 2015.
• Private partners include Bombardier, Honeywell, MDA Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Ryerson University, Sumitomo Precision Products Canada Aircraft, Inc.
• Instead, some early VGA hardware, both monitors and VGA cards, used a DE-9 connector for VGA, just like what had been in use for MDA, CGA, Hercules, and EGA.
• It also has data on how to synthesize MDMA or MDA, and how to synthesize methcathinone by oxidation of ephedrine.
• Early versions of the MDA board have hardware capable of outputting red, green and blue TTL signals on the normally unconnected DE-9 video connector pins, theoretically allowing an 8-color display with a suitable monitor.
• This is a legacy of keyboards manufactured during the 1980s and 1990s for IBM PC compatible computers, as the IBM PC continued to display the glyph for the broken bar at codepoint 7C on displays from MDA (1981) to VGA (1987) despite the changes made to ASCII in 1977.
• He has been a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Martha Stewart Living, The Weakest Link, NBC's Today Show, Live With Regis and Kelly, and the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon four years in a row.
• MDA is rarely sought as a recreational drug compared to other amphetamines; however, it remains widely used due to it being a primary metabolite, the product of hepatic N-dealkylation, of MDMA.
• Centennial College is a partner in the Downsview aerospace consortium, DAIR, along with the University of Toronto, York University, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), and eight companies including Pratt and Whitney Canada, FlightSafety, Canadensys, UTC Aerospace, MDA, Safran Landing Systems, Honeywell and Bombardier Aerospace.
• On 8 February 2024, the USS McCampbell, in collaboration with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), successfully conducted Flight Test Other-23 (FTX-23), also known as Stellar Sisyphus, off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii.
• He hosted the New York City portions of the MDA Labor Day Telethon on WNEW/WNYW and WWOR-TV from the 1980s to 2011, leaving in response to Jerry Lewis' firing from the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
• The machine uses a unique hybrid of the IBM MDA and CGA which supports the latter's graphics modes, but contains both cards' text fonts in ROM.
• The main characters in the pilot episode included Dr Louella "Ella" Davis, the moral centre of the firm whose passion lies equally distributed between her work at St Albans Hospital Emergency Ward, and defending doctors; "Happy" Henderson, a lawyer whose nickname can be greatly misleading; Dr Jamie Lawless, an optimistic young doctor whose passion for helping others often leads him to inner conflict; Caitlin King, the new law recruit at MDA whose ambitions far exceed what she can do at the firm; Layla Young of the Bahá'í faith, the friendly receptionist; Dr Tony McKinnon, a doctor who works with Ella at the hospital; and Richard Savage – the cutthroat plaintiff's advocate who often does battles with MDA.

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