LCA

LCA may refer to:

Technology

• Landing Craft Assault, a British landing craft of the Second World War.
• LCA (Low Cost Apple), code name for the Apple IIe
• Light Combat Aircraft program, pursued by India for the development of the HAL Tejas 4th generation fighter jet.
• Liquid Crystal Attenuator
• Lower control arm, component of an automobile suspension
• Luminance-Chrominance-Audio, video signal standard, carrying brightness and color information on separate wires.

Mathematics

• Latent class analysis in statistics, a set of observed discrete multivariate variables to a set of latent variables
• Linear Correspondence Axiom, linguistic term belonging to the theory of antisymmetry
• Lowest common ancestor, in graph theory, the lowest node in T that has both v and w as descendants
• Large cardinal axiom, a type of proposed axiom in the field of set theory

Science

• Last Common Ancestor, the most recent common ancestor of two populations that came to be separated by a species barrier
• Longitudinal (or lateral) chromatic aberration, a form of colour distortion in optical microscopes
• Life cycle assessment (or life cycle analysis), a technique to assess environmental impacts of products

Medicine

• Leber's congenital amaurosis, a recessive genetic condition that causes blindness
• Left coronary artery
• Leukocyte common antigen

Places

• La Crescenta, California (Amtrak station code)
• Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus (IATA airport code)
• Little Caesars Arena, sports arena in Detroit
• London City Airport, a small airport in the London Docklands
• Saint Lucia (ISO 3166-1 country code, IOC country code)

Organizations

• Lambda Chi Alpha, one of the largest fraternities in North America.
• Land Commissioners Association, an association of state land administrators in the United States from 1931 to 1934
• Last Chance for Animals, a not-for-profit animal welfare organization
• Law Council of Australia
• LCA-Vision, a U.S. company providing LASIK vision services
• Legal & Corporate Affairs (internal legal department, e.g. at Microsoft)
• Leeds College of Art
• Legalise Cannabis Alliance
• Lexington Christian Academy (disambiguation)
• Lutheran Church in America
• Lutheran Church of Australia

Other

• Labor Condition Application, included in H-1B visa application
• Leaving Certificate Applied, a two-year programme of the Irish Department of Education and Science
• linux.conf.au, the annual conference organised by Linux Australia (aka LCA)
• Liquor Control Act (Manitoba ministry)
• Lithocholic acid
• Low cost airline
• Landscape character assessment, the process of identifying and describing variation in character of the landscape; see Landscape assessment § Landscape Character Assessment (or Landscape characterisation)