HCA may refer to:

Courts

High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system. It exercises original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified in the Constitution of Australia and supplementary legislation. The High Court was establi ...

, the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia

Organizations

Europe

Hall–Carpenter Archives The Hall–Carpenter Archives (HCA), founded in 1982, are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain, following the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. The archives are named after the authors Radclyffe Hall, Marguer ...

, an archive of materials related to gay activism in Britain *

Heidelberg Center for American Studies The University of Heidelberg's Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) is a higher education and research center. It was founded in 2004, making it the newest institute of Germany's oldest university. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies ...

, an institute at Heidelberg University, Germany * Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe *

Heritage Crafts Association Heritage Crafts is a registered United Kingdom charity (registered as The Heritage Crafts Association) set up to support and promote traditional crafts. It has been operating under the name Heritage Crafts since October 2021. The charity was launc ...

, a UK charity that helps to preserve traditional hand crafts *

Homes and Communities Agency Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). HCA in turn was established by the Housing and Regeneration Act ...

, a UK non-departmental public body

United States

* Heritage Christian Academy (disambiguation), several private Christian schools: **

Heritage Christian Academy (Fort Collins, Colorado) Heritage Christian Academy is an Independent school, independent, Private school, private, non-denominational Christianity, Christian K–12 school in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, with Educational stages, grades pre-kindergarten (four ...

Heritage Christian Academy (Texas) Heritage Christian Academy is a private K-12 Christian school located in Rockwall, Texas Rockwall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the County seat, seat of Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall County. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that ...

Heritage Christian Academy (Kansas) Heritage Christian Academy is a private Christian school with campuses in Overland Park, Kansas and Olathe, Kansas. It serves pre-kindergarten through grade 12. History History of Berean Christian School Berean Christian Academy was formed ...

Heritage Christian Academy (Minnesota) Heritage Christian Academy is a private Christian school which educates children from Kindergarten Development class for three-year-olds through the high school grades. It is an outreach ministry of Grace Free Lutheran Church, formerly Medicine L ...

** Heritage Christian Academy (New Jersey) *

Hollywood Critics Association The Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) is a group of critics, entertainment journalists, content creators, industry influencers, and creatives. The vision and mission of the HCA is to amplify diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and cult ...

, a film critic group in Los Angeles, California * Hopkins Consulting Agency, a student-run technology consulting company at The Johns Hopkins University *

Hospital Corporation of America HCA Healthcare, Inc. (historically known as Hospital Corporation of America) is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owned and operated 186 ...

, an operator of health care facilities

Other organizations

Hillcrest Christian Academy Hillcrest is a town in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and is situated approximately 32 km (20 mi) north-west of Durban and 53 km (33 mi) south-east of Pietermaritzburg. Histo ...

, an independent primary school in South Africa * Holy Child Academy, a Catholic school in Pagadian City, Philippines

Science and technology

Heterocyclic amine Heterocyclic amines, also sometimes referred to as HCAs, are chemical compounds containing at least one heterocyclic ring, which by definition has atoms of at least two different elements, as well as at least one amine (nitrogen-containing) group. ...

, a type of chemical compound containing at least one heterocyclic ring *

Hexachloroacetone Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula (Cl3C)2CO. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substitut ...

, an organic compound also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone *

Hierarchical cluster analysis In data mining and statistics, hierarchical clustering (also called hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA) is a method of cluster analysis that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. Strategies for hierarchical clustering generally fall into two ...

, a method of cluster analysis used in data mining *

High content analysis High-content screening (HCS), also known as high-content analysis (HCA) or cellomics, is a method that is used in biological research and drug discovery to identify substances such as small molecules, peptides, or RNAi that alter the phenotype of ...

, a laboratory microscopic technique *

Host channel adapter In computer hardware a host controller, host adapter or host bus adapter (HBA) connects a computer system bus which acts as the host system to other network and storage devices. The terms are primarily used to refer to devices for connecting ...

, in electronic communications *

Hydroxycitric acid Hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is a derivative of citric acid that is found in a variety of tropical plants including '' Garcinia cambogia'' and ''Hibiscus sabdariffa''. There are four isomers, (+)- and (-)-hydroxycitric acid, and (+)- and (-)-allo-hyd ...

* Holloway Cut Advisor, a method of rating brilliant cut diamonds * Hot Cranking Amps, a measurement of the current provided by a

car battery An automotive battery, or car battery, is a usually 12 Volt lead-acid rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle, and to power lights, screen wiper etc. while the engine is off. Its main purpose is to provide an electric current ...

* Hydrographic Commission on Antarctica

Other uses

HCA (classification) HCA is a para-cycling classification. Definition In 2008, ''BBC Sport'' defined this classification as "HCA: For athletes with complete loss of trunk and lower limb function" In 2008, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation'' defined this class ...

, a para-cycling classification *

Healthcare Assistant Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) are paraprofessionals who assist individuals with physical disabilities, mental impairments, and other health care needs with their activities of daily living (ADLs). UAPs also provide bedside care—includi ...

, a UK name for a job class of medical paraprofessionals *

Hennepin Center for the Arts The Hennepin Center for the Arts (HCA) is an art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It occupies a building on Hennepin Avenue constructed in 1888 as a Masonic Temple. The building was designed by Long and Kees in the Richardsonia ...

, a building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US *

Historical cost accounting The historical cost of an asset at the time it is Total cost of acquisition, acquired or created is the value of the costs incurred in acquiring or creating the asset, comprising the consideration paid to acquire or create the asset plus transacti ...

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