PDA
PDA is an abbreviation for:
IT, technology:
- Personal Digital Assistant , a small portable computer
- Phase Doppler Anemometry (general) or Particle Dynamics Analysis (at Dantec Dynamics A / S), method for non-intrusive measurement of flows with the help of lasers
- Photo Diode Array , component used in optical measuring devices for recording brightness gradients, see line of photodiodes
- Pickering, Darby & Allday , former British automobile manufacturer
- Porting data exchange , see number portability
- Process data analysis
- pushdown automaton , see push-down automaton (theoretical computer science)
Medicine and natural sciences:
- Epidural anesthesia , a form of regional anesthesia (close to the spinal cord)
- persistent ductus arteriosus
- Posterior Descendent Artery, Ramus interventricularis posterior , a coronary vessel
- Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy , a rare form of epilepsy that is treated with vitamin B 6 (= pyridoxine)
- Potato dextrose agar (PDA from English Potato dextrose agar), a widely used nutrient medium for the cultivation of mushrooms
Politics:
- the Portuguese small party Partido Democrático do Atlântico
- the Colombian party Polo Democrático Alternativo
Others:
- Patron-Driven-Acquisition (customer -driven acquisition), a media acquisition model in the library sector in which the customer makes the purchase decision
- Parenteral Drug Association , organization involved in the regulation and development of pharmaceuticals and similar products
- Performance (oriented) display advertising , a term used in online marketing
- Project on Defense Alternatives , a Commonwealth Institute project
- Probabilistic Data Association
PdA is the abbreviation for:
- Swiss Labor Party
- Party of Labor, see Labor Party
