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• Ca
  Ca

  calcium.
• CA
  CA

  abbreviation

  California (approved especially for use with zip code).
• ca'
  ca'

  verb (used with or without object)

  to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.
• ca-
  ca-

  variant of ker-.
• ca.
  ca.

  abbreviation

  cathode.
• C/A
  C/A

  capital account.
• C.A.
  C.A.

  abbreviation

  Central America.
• ca
  ca

  abbreviation

  Canada

Ca

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. calcium.

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CA ² American  

abbreviation

1. California (approved especially for use with zip code).

2. chronological age.

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ca' ³ American  

[kah, kaw] / kɑ, kɔ /

verb (used with or without object)

Scot.

1. to call, as to call an animal toward one; urge forward by calling.

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ca- ⁴ American  

1. variant of ker-.

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ca. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. cathode.

2. centiare.

3. Also ca (with a year) about.

   ca. 476 b.c.

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C/A ⁶ American  

Or c/a

1. capital account.

2. cash account.

3. credit account.

4. current account.

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C.A. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. Central America.

2. chartered accountant.

3. Accounting. chief accountant.

4. Coast Artillery.

5. commercial agent.

6. consular agent.

7. controller of accounts.

8. current assets.

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CA ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. California

2. Central America

3. chartered accountant

4. chief accountant

5. consular agent

6. (in Britain) Consumers' Association

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C/A ² British  

abbreviation

1. capital account

2. credit account

3. current account

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Ca ³ British  

symbol

1. calcium

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ca ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Canada

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ca. ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. circa

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Etymology

Origin of ca'³

Variant of call

Origin of ca.⁵

ca. ( def. 3 ) < Latin circā

Example Sentences

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Ca CA ca' ca- ca. C.A. ca

Using specially designed nucleic acid probes, the team produced microscopic images showing intron RNA in living cells of Ca.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

He recalled when he was 15, growing up in the Vietnamese city of Ca Mau, he overheard his father’s friend ask for a loan to buy a car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle presided as papal envoy over a special mass in a church in Ca Mau for Father Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep, a priest killed while protecting parishioners in 1946.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

“The gift return is an informational return because there is a lot of information and no tax being sent to the IRS,” says LSL CPAs, which is headquartered in Irvine, Ca.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 7, 2025

Ox tu kal, three to the score, 23, and so on up to Ca kal, two score, 40.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton

The company was founded by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joseph Gebbia in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

In an April 29 press release, Markon Cooperative, a farm-to-table produce cooperative, noted that cauliflower supplies from the Salinas Valley and Santa Maria, CA, are extremely limited.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

He noted in a recent interview with StatNews published last week that his CA 19-9 levels—a common blood marker of pancreatic cancer—had plunged from north of 8,000 to about 374.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Redwood logs are trucked to the Pacific Lumber Company in 1995 in Scotia, CA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

Then I took the envelope from my dresser, postmarked Oakland, CA.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

There's been a consultation atween Elder Willison an' John, as to the time o' their visit to Cubby's den, as they ca' it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

“Well, Mr Allister, we’ll just have to ca’ your services into requisition.”

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

"Av you ca' it walking," said Sandy, grimly; "but it's mair, far mair, like the step o' a goose than a Christian man."

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

"I'm sure they wadna ca' me wise, Gin I wad gang wi' you, Sir;10 For I can neither card nor spin, Nor yet milk ewe or cow, Sir."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

You will ca' at my office on Wednesday; and, after that, I'll tak care o' you.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton

She wants me to be indebted to her for my education, for my ca- reer, for my house.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

It is the illumination of 85:3 the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the ca-         pacity of Soul, not of material sense.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The Wolfe deuoureth and ea- teth of his praie all in feare, and therefore oftentymes he ca- steth his looke, to be safe from perill and daunger.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

Root grow thou long-er heart be thou strong-er; Let the sun bless me, soft-ly ca- ress me; Let rain-drops pat-ter, wind, my leaves scat-ter.

From The Story Hour by Nora Archibald Smith

The human genome contains ca. 20,000 genes that are used for the construction of proteins.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

Described as “Garcia’s personal briefcase, with handwritten lyrics, drawings, letters, and ephemera, ca. 1977-1979,” the assorted paperwork offers a look at the musician’s daily life on the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

In the 5th and 4th century the number of "eligible voters" was perhaps not higher than 10% out of a population of ca. 250,000.

From Economist ● Nov. 27, 2012

Part of the challenge was to create an interactive version of a city--in this case, Yokosuka, Japan, ca. 1986--in which you can knock on virtually every door on every street.

From Time Magazine Archive

Armed with his ca. sa., my neighbor Johnson offsets everybody's fi. fa., serves his writ the first, and makes to gentlemen like you a satisfactory quotient.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

“We were sitting around after dinner and wrote half the song,” she told the writer C.A.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

The practice of sending reporters out as a “one-man band” is not new, but it is more widespread today, said C.A.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

Baker, for his part, isn’t too worried about losing his longtime home on the C.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

Recollection of better times further burdens the characters in C.A.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2018

The diagrams on plates XII. and XIII. will illustrate more clearly than a verbal explanation the precise method of dividing up the Crown C.A. paper.

From Gambia by Frederick John Melville

For Mr. McWilliams, next to nothing is irrelevant to the story of man and money, including the first bicycle craze, ca.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

They recorded substantially higher levels of pollutants in the kitchen for well over an hour after the food had been cooked despite the cooking process only taking ca.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

But instead of giving her a ticket, he cleaned off her ca, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

Among his juxtapositions was a 2021 photograph by Carol Antezana, “Las Gringas,” paired with Thomas Eakins’s ca.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022

“Ah ri cas, ca mo ve he,” the witch teacher says.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na