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GCA

Definition: GCA

GCA

Noun

1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: GCA

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

= ground-controlled approach.Abbreviation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: GCA

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

GCA

DanishRadarstyret indflyvningTransportation

GCA

EnglishGlobal Chip AllianceN/A

GCA

FinnishMaasta ohjattu lähestymisjärjestelmäPost & Telecom

GCA

SpanishSistema de aterrizaje desde tierraTransportation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: GCA

Synonym: ground-controlled approach (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Global Chip Alliance (computing), Global Coalition for Africa (public administration, politics & international affaires), Graphic Communications Association (publishing & graphic arts), greater calling area (post & telecom), ground controlled approach (transportation), ground controlled approach system, ground-controlled approach (post & telecom, transportation), group capacity assessment (economics), Guidelines on Corrective Action (finance).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GCA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gca

67

gca industry

3

gca transport

3

gca hawaii

2

4020b gca

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: GCA

Derivations

Words containing "GCA": dogcart, dogcarts, dogcatcher, dogcatchers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GCA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g"

-1 letter: ag.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g"
 

+1 letter: cage, cagy, clag, crag, scag.

 

+2 letters: acing, cadge, cadgy, caged, cager, cages, cagey, cargo, chang, cigar, clags, clang, conga, crags, gamic, glace, grace, guaco, magic, scags, scrag.

 

+3 letters: aching, acting, agamic, agaric, agency, agonic, arcing, cadged, cadger, cadges, cagers, cagier, cagily, caging, caking, cangue, caning, cargos, caring, casing, catgut, caught, caving, cawing, change, changs, charge, cigars, clangs, cognac, cogway, congas, cougar, cowage, craggy, cubage, curagh, encage, facing, gallic, galyac, garcon, garlic, gascon, gauche, gaucho, glaces, glacis, glance, glucan, glycan, graced, graces, guacos, guaiac, incage, lacing, legacy, macing, magics, orgiac, pacing, racing, scrags, socage, tragic, uncage.

 

+4 letters: acreage, acrogen, actings, agapeic, agarics, aggadic, aglycon, agnatic, agravic, anergic, angelic, anglice, apogeic, arching, arcking, argotic, augitic, baching, backing, backlog, boscage, bracing, cabbage, cabbing, cabling, caching, cadgers, cadging, cageful, cagiest, calking, calling, calming, calving, camping, campong, cangues, canning, cantdog, canting, capping, carding, cargoes, carking, carling, carnage, carping, cartage, carting, carving, cashing, casings, casking, casting, catalog, catguts, catling, catting, causing, cavings, ceasing, chafing, chagrin, changed, changer, changes, charged, charger, charges, charing, chasing, chawing, choragi, cigaret, cingula, clagged, clanged, clanger, clangor, claught, clawing, claying, coagent, coagula, coaling, coaming, coating, coaxing, cognacs, cognate, cogways, coinage, collage, congaed, congeal, cordage, corkage, corsage, cottage, cougars, courage, cowages, cowhage, coxalgy, cragged, craning, crannog, craping, crating, craving, crazing, cubages, curaghs, curragh, cuttage, daglock, dancing, decagon, decalog, dockage, dogcart, dogface, elegiac, encaged, encages, escuage, facings, farcing, galenic, galyacs, gametic, ganache, garcons, garlics, gascons, gastric, gaucher, gauchos, glaceed, glacial, glacier, glanced, glancer, glances, glucans, glycans, gnathic, gonadic, gouache, gracile, gracing, grackle, graphic, grimace, guaiacs, guanaco, gynecia, hacking, hagadic, hogback, incaged, incages, jacking, jackleg, lacings, lacking, lancing, lockage, logical, magical, myalgic, octagon, oghamic, organic, otalgic, package, packing, peacing, pelagic, placing, racings, racking, sacking, sacring, saucing, scalage, scaling, scaping, scaring, scraggy, scraigh, scumbag, scutage, socager, socages, soccage, spacing, tacking, talcing, tracing, tragics, uncaged, uncages, vicugna, yacking.

 

+5 letters: abducing, acceding, accruing, accusing, achingly, acreages, acrogens, adducing, agalloch, agencies, agenetic, aglycone, aglycons, agnostic, agraphic, agrestic, algicide, allergic, alogical, amercing, anagogic, analogic, angelica, antalgic, apagogic, apogamic, arcading, archings, argentic, armagnac, backings, backlogs, batching, beaching, birdcage, blackgum, blacking, blackleg, blockage, boscages, bracings, brockage, cabbaged, cabbages, cabining, cabotage, cackling, caddying, cagefuls, cageling, caginess, cajoling, callings, calquing, cambogia, cameoing, campagna, campagne, campaign, campings, campongs, canaling, candling, candying, cannings, canoeing, cantdogs, capering, cappings, caprifig, caragana, carageen, carangid, cardigan, cardings, carlings, carnages, caroling, caroming, carpings, carriage, carrying, cartages, carvings, castings, castling, catalogs, catching, category, catering, catfight, catlings, caulking, caviling, chaffing, chagrins, chaining, chairing, chalking, champing, chancing, changers, changing, chantage, chanting, chapping, chargers, charging, charking, charming, charring, charting, chasings, chatting, cheating, chigetai, choragic, choragus, chugalug, cigarets, clacking, cladding, clagging, claiming, clamming, clamping, clangers, clanging, clangors, clangour, clanking, clapping, clashing, clasping, classing, claughts, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleavage, cleaving, cloaking, coaching, coacting, coagency, coagents, coagulum, coamings, coapting, coasting, coatings, cogitate, cognates, coinages, collaged, collagen, collages, collegia, comaking, comanage, congaing, congeals, congrats, conjugal, contagia, cordages, corkages, corsages, cottager, cottages, cottagey, courages, coverage, cowhages, coxalgia, coxalgic, cozenage, craaling, crabbing, cracking, cradling, crafting, craggier, craggily, cragsman, cragsmen, cramming, cramping, cranking, crannoge, crannogs, crapping, crashing, cravings, crawling, creaking, creaming, creasing, creating, creepage, cribbage, croaking, curating, curraghs, cutgrass, cuttages, cyanogen, daglocks, decagons, decagram, decalogs, decaying, decigram, defacing, delegacy, dialogic, disgrace, dockages, dogcarts, dogfaces, dogmatic, dogwatch, echogram, effacing, elegance, elegancy, elegiacs, enacting, encaging, encasing, enfacing, enlacing, ergastic, escaping, escargot, escuages, exacting, exchange, exogamic, faceting, fancying, flacking, fugacity, gabbroic, galactic, gallican, galvanic, gamecock, ganaches, garlicky, gauchely, gauchest, gavelock, gazpacho, gearcase, geomancy, germanic, gestical, gigantic, gimcrack, giveback, glaceing, glaciate, glaciers, glacises, glancers, glancing, glaucoma, glaucous, glucagon, gnomical, golconda, gouaches, graceful, graciles, gracilis, gracioso, gracious, grackles, graecize, gramercy, granitic, graphics, grayback, grimaced, grimacer, grimaces, gripsack, guacharo, guaiacol, guaiacum, guaiocum, guanacos, guidance, gynaecea, gynaecia, gynarchy, gynoecia, hackling, haggadic, hatching, highjack, hogbacks, incaging, incasing, inlacing, isagogic, jacklegs, jauncing, knacking, lacewing, latching, leaching, legacies, locating, lockages, logician, logomach, mackling, maculing, magician, magicked, magmatic, magnesic, magnetic, magnific, manganic, marching, margaric, matching, megabuck, megacity, menacing, mucilage, nightcap, octagons, octangle, oligarch, organics, orgasmic, orgastic, packaged, packager, packages, packings, parching, patching, peaching, picogram, poaching, podagric, prancing, quacking, ranching, reaching, reacting, reaginic, recaning, rechange, recharge, refacing, regnancy, relacing, roaching, sackings, sacrings, sagacity, scabbing, scalages, scalawag, scalding, scalping, scamming, scamping, scanning, scanting, scarfing, scarping, scarring, scarting, scathing, scatting, scavenge, scragged, scraggly, scraighs, scraping, scumbags, scuppaug, scutages, slacking, smacking, snacking, socagers, soccages, solacing, spacings, spagyric, stacking, surgical, syngamic, tackling, tagmemic, taiglach, talcking, tangence, tangency, teaching, teiglach, thacking, tracings, trackage, tracking, tragical, trancing, truckage, uncaging, uncaking, uncaring, uncasing, uncaught, uncharge, ungraced, unlacing, vacating, vagrancy, vicarage, vicinage, vicugnas, watchdog, watching, whacking, wingback, wracking, wreckage, yachting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GCA


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

47 43 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)

01000111 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#67 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0043 0041

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

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

413735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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