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Ada

1

[ ey-duh ]

noun

, Computers.
  1. a programming language particularly suited to real-time applications: developed for use by the U.S. Department of Defense.


Ada

2

[ ey-duh ]

noun

  1. a city in central Oklahoma.
  2. Douay Bible. Adah.
  3. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”

ADA

3

abbreviation for

  1. American Dental Association. A.D.A.
  2. American Diabetes Association. A.D.A.
  3. Americans for Democratic Action. A.D.A.
  4. Americans with Disabilities Act: a federal law prohibiting discrimination against people with physical or mental impairments and guaranteeing access to employment opportunities and access to state and local government programs and services, signed by President George H. W. Bush in 1990.

A.D.A.

4
or ADA

abbreviation for

  1. American Dental Association.
  2. American Diabetes Association.
  3. Americans for Democratic Action.

Ada

/ ˈeɪdə /

noun

  1. a high-level computer programming language designed for dealing with real-time processing problems: used for military and other systems


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ada1

Named after Augusta Ada (Byron), Countess of Lovelace (1815–37), English mathematician, who assisted Charles Babbage in developing a precursor of the modern computer

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ada1

C20: named after Ada, Lady Lovelace, the English mathematician, daughter of Lord Byron (1815–52), who worked with Charles Babbage (1792–1871) and whose description of his computing machines preserved them for posterity

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Example Sentences

Eventually, she read into the ADA and wrote again, threatening legal action unless she was accommodated.

When Wales and his new wife had a daughter in 2011, they named her Ada, after Lady Lovelace.

It also harkened back to Ada Lovelace, who asserted that machines would be able to do almost anything, except think on their own.

McAndrews agreed that the androgenic hormone pill would be problematic for those with a genetic propensity for ADA.

Some of the most important accommodations are not line-skipping, nor expensive ADA-compliant building regulations.

Only a few shillings stood between her and Ada and absolute starvation.

The younger girl, Ada, was very delicate, and so Jessie had to cast about to make a living for the two.

Ada's a good child, as good as a born egoist can be, but—well—we are not all made on the same plan.

Both at Ravenna and at Pisa he was miserable if he did not hear from Ada.

Pointing them out to Ada, I hurried her past them downstairs to the street.

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