SCA may refer to:

Biology and health

Sickle cell disease Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a person's parents. The most common type is known as sickle cell anaemia. It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red b ...

, also known as sickle cell anaemia * Spinocerebellar ataxia, a neurological condition *

Statistical coupling analysis Statistical coupling analysis or SCA is a technique used in bioinformatics to measure covariation between pairs of amino acids in a protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA). More specifically, it quantifies how much the amino acid distribution ...

, a method to identify covarying pairs of amino acids in protein multiple sequence alignments * Sudden cardiac arrest, a condition in which the heart suddenly stops beating, leading to sudden cardiac death * Superior cerebellar artery, a major blood supplier to the cerebellum

Commercial entities

Sebastian Conran Associates Sebastian may refer to: People * Sebastian (name), including a list of persons with the name Arts, entertainment, and media Films and television * ''Sebastian'' (1968 film), British spy film * ''Sebastian'' (1995 film), Swedish drama film ...

, a British product and brand development consultancy *

Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation SONAM, headquartered in New York City, manages the company's US-based businesses. Sony's principal U.S. busines ...

, holding company for Sony's American companies *

Southern Cross Austereo Southern Cross Media Group Limited, doing business as Southern Cross Austereo, is an Australian media company which operates broadcast radio and television stations. It is the largest radio broadcaster in Australia, operating 86 radio statio ...

, an Australian media company *

Supercheap Auto Supercheap Auto is an Australian automotive parts and accessories retailer. It was founded in 1972, operating as a mail-order business and opened its first store in Brisbane in 1974. It now has 300 stores across Australia and New Zealand. H ...

, an Australian automotive parts and accessories retailer * SCA (company) (''Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget''), a Swedish hygiene products and paper manufacturer

Computing

* SCA (computer virus), an Amiga virus referencing the Swiss Cracking Association * Service Component Architecture * Side-channel attack, in cryptography * Single Connector Attachment or Single Connection Attach, an 80-pin SCSI storage interface *

Software Communications Architecture {{inline, date=May 2014 The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) is an open architecture framework that defines a standard way for radios to instantiate, configure, and manage waveform applications running on their platform. The SCA separa ...

, in Software-Defined Radio (SDR) *

Static code analysis In computer science, static program analysis (or static analysis) is the analysis of computer programs performed without executing them, in contrast with dynamic program analysis, which is performed on programs during their execution. The term ...

* Strong customer authentication * Software Composition Analysis

Locations

Seoul Capital Area The Seoul Capital Area (SCA), Sudogwon (, ) or Gyeonggi region (), is the metropolitan area of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, located in north-west South Korea. Its population of 26 million (as of 2020) is ranked as the fifth largest ...

, Korea * Singapore Changi Airport *

South and Central America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

, a country grouping * Southern Control Area, a Canadian airspace designation * Soviet Central Asia

Organizations

* Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, in the U.S. Department of State * Sabah Chinese Association * Sarawak Chinese Association * Schuylkill Canal Association, an organization that maintains a section of historical canal in Pennsylvania * Scottish Canoe Association, the national governing body for paddlesports in Scotland * Screen Composers of America, an organization co-founded by Jeff Alexander * Secular Coalition for America *

Sexual Compulsives Anonymous Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA) is a twelve-step program for people who want to stop having compulsive sex. SCA founding is attributed variously to 1982 in New York City and to 1973 in Los Angeles. Although the fellowship originally sought to ...

* Société en commandite par actions, a type of corporation in France * Society for Creative Anachronism, an international living history group ** SCA armoured combat, a combat sport developed by the above organization * Society for Cultural Anthropology, a professional association for cultural anthropologists * Student Catholic Action, a religious student organization in the Philippines * Student Conservation Association, a non-profit conservation service organization in the United States * Suez Canal Authority, a state-owned authority which owns and maintains the Suez Canal * Supreme Council of Antiquities, the Egyptian antiquities service * Supreme Court of Albania, the court of last resort in the Republic of Albania *

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA, sv, Svenska Afghanistankommittén, SAK) is a Swedish non-governmental foreign aid organisation active in Afghanistan. The organisation was formed in 1980, as a reaction to the Soviet invasion. The SCA ...

* Swiss Cricket Association * Sydney Catchment Authority *

Sydney College of the Arts The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019, the campus was loc ...

Other

* McNamara–O'Hara Service Contract Act *

Senate Constitutional Amendment In California, a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote (or plebiscite). If passed, it can alter one or more of the articles of the Constitution of Cal ...

, the formal name for a type of California ballot proposition * Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, two Boeing 747 aircraft modified to transport the Space Shuttle * Small craft advisory * Solar collector array, a type of solar thermal collector * Spectrum continuation analysis * Stored Communications Act, Title II of the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 * Subsidiary communications authority, the Federal Communications Commission's name for subcarrier channels transmitted on a broadcast FM station * Sustainable competitive advantage, a business advantage that is preserved over long term *

USC School of Cinematic Arts The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Sc ...

, University of Southern California, United States {{disambiguation