LCA

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LCA

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Saint Lucia.
    Synonym: LC (alpha-2)

English

Noun

LCA (countable and uncountable, plural LCAs)

  1. (electronics, countable) Initialism of logic cell array.
  2. (aviation, countable) Initialism of large commercial aircraft.
  3. (biology, paleontology, countable) Initialism of last common ancestor.
    • 2012, David R. Begun, A Companion to Paleoanthropology:
      Against the backdrop of these global and local climatic changes, the LCA of African apes and humans split into a gorilline clade and Pan-Homo clade, and the latter split again into panin and hominin clades.
  4. (pathology, uncountable) Initialism of Leber's congenital amaurosis.
  5. (pathology) Initialism of Leucocyte common antigen.

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