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PDA

PDA is the initialism of personal digital assistant.

PDA is the initialism of public display of affection.

PDA is the initialism of pushdown automaton.

PDA is the initialism of property damage accident.

PDA is the initialism of pathological demand avoidance.

PDA is the initialism of patent ductus arteriosus.

Meaning of personal digital assistant

Noun

personal digital assistant (plural personal digital assistants)

  1. (dated) A hand-held computer, mostly used as an organizer.
    • The device, about the size of a fat paperback book, represents the most ambitious attempt yet by computer and communications companies to pool their resources in hopes of finally creating a market for what the industry calls "personal digital assistants."[1994 September 28, Lawrence M. Fisher, “Personal Digital Assistant, Part III”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    palmtop

Meaning of public display of affection

Noun

public display of affection (plural public displays of affection)

  1. An act of physical intimacy in the view of others.

Forms of PDA

pluralPDAs

Questions about PDA

What is PDA the initialism of?
PDA is the initialism of personal digital assistant.

Words near PDA in the dictionary

  1. PCVs
  2. PCW
  3. PCX
  4. pcynidiospore
  5. PD
  6. PDA
  7. PDAF
  8. PDAs
  9. PDB
  10. PDBs
  11. PDC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PDA (page history and authors); personal digital assistant (page history and authors); public display of affection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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