A·da (  d )n. A programming language, based on Pascal and developed for the U.S. Department of Defense. [After Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852).] |
| ADA abbr. 1. American Dental Association 2. American Diabetes Association 3. American Dietetic Association 4. Americans for Democratic Action 5. Americans with Disabilities Act 6. assistant district attorney |
Ada [ˈeɪdə]
n
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a high-level computer programming language designed for dealing with real-time processing problems: used for military and other systems
[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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| Noun | 1. | ADA - an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia; "ADA deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease"; "the gene encoding ADA was one of the earlier human genes to be isolated and cloned for study" enzyme - any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions |
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