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DCA

Specialty Definition: DCA

DomainDefinition

Computing

DCA 1. Defense Communications Agency. See DISA. 2. Document Content Architecture from IBM. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DCA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DCA

EnglishDaimler Chrysler AerospaceN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: DCA

Specialty definitions using "DCA": TLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DCA

DomainTitle

Books

  • DCA (Dichloroacetate): What You Need to Know (reference)

  • Flieger + [i.e. und] Flab = Aviation + DCA = Aviazione + DCA (reference)

  • La "Flak" : 1935-1945 : la DCA allemande (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DCA

"DCA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "DCA" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (common)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DCA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dca

330

mo dca

3

dca airport

41

dca mo viewer

3

barber dca.ca.gov

21

airline caribbean dca dutch

3

dca airline

15

dca parking

3

dca nj

14

corps dca drum

3

dca georgia

10

510 dca

3

advertising dca

6

4th dca

3

dca jersey new

6

dca nyc

3

800 dca denon

5

2000 bayer dca

2

dca nic.in

5

code dca state.nj.gov

2

dca 2000

5

curacao dca

2

dca weblink

4

1st dca

2

dca florida

4

400 dca denon

2

dca lgs state.nj.us

4

dca rental car

2

dca design

4

510 dca download driver

2

dca ga

4

dca malaysia

2

dca design international

4

3180 dca

2

washington dca

3

510 cable data dca usb

2

consultant dca design

3

dca net

2

dca fly

3

dca state.nj.us

2

dca terror tower

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: DCA

Derivations

Words containing "DCA": birdcage, birdcages, birdcall, birdcalls, broadcast, broadcasted, broadcaster, broadcasters, broadcasting, broadcasts, cardcase, cardcases, friedcake, friedcakes, handcar, handcars, handcart, handcarts, hardcase, madcap, madcaps, mudcap, mudcapped, mudcapping, mudcaps, mudcat, mudcats, nonbroadcast, nonbroadcasts, rebroadcast, rebroadcasting, rebroadcasts, redcap, redcaps, seedcake, seedcakes, seedcase, seedcases, wildcat, wildcats, wildcatted, wildcatter, wildcatters, wildcatting, woodcarver, woodcarvers, woodcarving, woodcarvings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DCA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cad.

Words within the letters "a-c-d"

-1 letter: ad.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d"
 

+1 letter: aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, card, chad, clad, coda, dace, scad.

 

+2 letters: ached, acids, acidy, acned, acold, acred, acrid, acted, adunc, alcid, arced, asdic, caddy, cades, cadet, cadge, cadgy, cadis, cadre, caged, caids, caird, caked, candy, caned, canid, caped, cards, cared, cased, cauld, caved, cawed, cedar, chads, chard, clade, clads, codas, cycad, daces, dacha, dance, daric, decaf, decal, decay, dicta, ducal, ducat, faced, laced, maced, nicad, octad, paced, raced, scads, scald.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DCA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 43 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    -.-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#67 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0043 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

383735

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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