CDA

Domain	Definition
Computing	CDA /C-D-A/ The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996, passed on Black Thursday as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill. The CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person." It also threatened with imprisonment anyone who "knowingly" makes accessible to minors any message that "describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs". While the CDA was sold as a measure to protect minors from the putative evils of pornography, the repressive political aims of the bill were laid bare by the Hyde amendment, which intended to outlaw discussion of abortion on the Internet. To say that this direct attack on First Amendment free-speech rights was not well received on the Internet would be putting it mildly. A firestorm of protest followed, including a February 29th mass demonstration by thousands of netters who turned their home pages black for 48 hours. Several civil-rights groups and computing/telecommunications companies mounted a constitutional challenge. The CDA was demolished by a strongly-worded decision handed down in 8th-circuit Federal court and subsequently affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court on 26 June 1997 (`White Thursday'). See also Exon. Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: CDA

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.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CDA	English	Chain data adress	N/A
CDA	French	Carbone-diamant amorphe	N/A
CDA	Spanish	Concentración derivada en aire	Nuclear Energy & Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Commercial Usage: CDA

Domain	Title
Books	Commercial's a Practical Handbook of Departmental Proceedings (Under Cda Rules and Certified Standin (reference) De honden blaffen : waarom het CDA geen oppositie kan voeren (reference) Een eigen weg : de totstandkoming van het CDA (1952-1980) (reference) Een positieve grondhouding : de geschiedenis van het CDA (reference) Gods wil in Nederland : Christelijke ideologieèen en de vorming van het CDA (1880-1980) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Cda Mutual Fund Report (reference) Cda Update (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Simply Stenciling with Nancy Tribolet CDA (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: CDA

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Dedication ceremony of the 85-foot (26-meter) parabolic antenna at the Wallops Island CDA. Credit: NOAA in Space.		Electronic equipment at the Wallops Island CDA. Credit: NOAA in Space.
	Christen Democratisch Appèl, CDA. Credit: Library of Congress.		Van Agt, 1, Christen-Democratisch Appel, CDA. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: CDA

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	The Netherlands	D'66 is a center-left party, generally portrayed as between the CDA and PvdA, with its strongest support among young, urban, professional voters. (references)
	The Netherlands	On the political spectrum, the CDA sees its philosophy as standing between the "individualism" of the Liberals and the "statism" of the Labor Party. (references)
	The Netherlands	The VVD was the junior partner in two governing coalitions with the CDA from 1982-89, and is now in the three-way coalition with 38 seats in the Second Chamber. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: CDA

"CDA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 59.26% of the time. "CDA" is used about 27 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)

Expression: CDA

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CDA

Anagrams: CDA

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.
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Alternative Orthography: CDA

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

43 44 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)

01000011 01000100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#68 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0044 0041

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

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	59.26%	16	87,710
Noun (common)	22.22%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	18.52%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cda	506	cda to wav converter	32
mp3 a cda	455	alpine cda 7897	32
convert and mp3 and to and cda	140	alpine cda 7893	32
cda to mp3 converter	137	alpine cda 7894	29
cda 7998	119	alpine cda 7998	26
cda to wav	96	cda 7897	23
cda converter	92	alpine cda	23
cda press	68	alpine cda 7863	21
cda w550	65	cda iron man	20
cda file	63	cda 9811	19
alpine cda 9815	62	alpine cda 7995	18
9807 alpine cda	60	cda format	18
9815 cda	60	cda 7894	18
9813 alpine cda	55	cda 7893	18
convert cda to wav	43	cda 7995	17
cda convert	40	9805 alpine cda	16
9807 cda	38	alpine cda 7892	15
free mp3 to cda converter	37	free mp3 to cda	14
alpine cda 9811	35	converting mp3 to cda	13
9813 cda	34	mp3 to cda convertor	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "CDA": cda-vvd.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: CDA

Abbreviations & Acronyms: CDA

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Crosswords: CDA

Commercial Usage: CDA

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