Cca
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The abbreviation CCA may refer to:
- Centre for Curating the ArchiveCentre for Curating the ArchiveThe Centre for Curating the Archive, at the University of Cape Town, began life as LLAREC in the late 1990s as a space in which material, both original and reproduced, created and found, was collected from a variety of archives, museums, collections, storerooms, offices and junk heaps and used...
- Canadian Centre for ArchitectureCanadian Centre for ArchitectureThe Canadian Centre for Architecture is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Phyllis Lambert is the Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Mirko Zardini is the Director and Chief Curator....
- Canonical Correlation Analysis
- CircaCircaCirca , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date...
- Chosen-ciphertext attackChosen-ciphertext attackA chosen-ciphertext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis in which the cryptanalyst gathers information, at least in part, by choosing a ciphertext and obtaining its decryption under an unknown key. In the attack, an adversary has a chance to enter one or more known ciphertexts into the...
- Chromated copper arsenateChromated copper arsenateChromated copper arsenate is a wood preservative used for timber treatment since the mid-1930s. It is a mix of chromium, copper and arsenic formulated as oxides or salts. It preserves the wood from decay fungi, wood attacking insects, including termites, and marine borers...
- Climate Change AgreementClimate Change AgreementWhen climate change levy was introduced in the UK the position of energy intensive industries was considered, given their energy usage, the requirements of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control regime and their exposure to international competition...
- Comics Code AuthorityComics Code AuthorityThe Comics Code Authority was a body created as part of the Comics Magazine Association of America, as a tool for the comics-publishing industry to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States. Member publishers submitted comic books to the CCA, which screened them for adherence to...
- Corrections Corporation of AmericaCorrections Corporation of AmericaCorrections Corporation of America is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. The company is the largest private corrections company in the United States and manages more than 60 facilities with a designed capacity of 90,000...
, a for-profit operator of correctional facilitiesPrisonA prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
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