ADA n : 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" [syn: adenosine deaminase]

English

Etymology

Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal-"noble", such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪdə

Proper noun

1. A given name
2. A programming language.

References

Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges:A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press.2001

See also

• wikipedia:Ada programming language
• wikibooks:Ada Programming

Swedish

Proper noun

1. A given name

Ada may refer to:

• Ada (programming language), a programming language based on Pascal
• Ada (orchid), a genus of orchids
• Ada (film), a 1961 film directed by Daniel Mann, with Susan Hayward and Dean Martin
• Ada (computer virus), a memory resident, file infecting computer virus which infects COM files
• Ada (protein), an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
• Ada (dog actor), who played Colin on the sitcom Spaced
• Ada (Castlevania), a character from the video game Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
• Ada Wong, a character from the video games Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4

People

• St. Ada, a 7th-century French abbess.
• Ada, Countess of Holland
• Ada de Warenne, Countess of Northumbria and Huntingdon (d. 1178)
• Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great
• Ada, sister of Charlemagne, for whom the Ada Gospels at Trier were produced
• Variant transliteration of Hebrew Adah (עָדָה)

Places

• Ada, Ghana
• Ada, Serbia
• Ada County, Idaho, U.S.
• Ada, Minnesota, U.S.
• Ada, Ohio, U.S.
• Ada, Oklahoma, U.S.

• Ada River, New Zealand

See also

• ADA
• Ada Township