A high-level programming language designed under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in the late 1970s and intended to be the primary language for DoD software development. Originally based on Pascal, Ada supports real-time operations and multitasking. The language was named after Augusta Ada Byron, who assisted Charles Babbage in developing programs for his Analytical Engine, the first mechanical computer, in the nineteenth century. See also multitasking, Pascal, real-time.
High-level computer-programming language, developed and owned by the US Department of Defense, designed for use in situations in which a computer directly controls a process or machine, such as a military aircraft. The language took more than five years to specify, and became commercially available only in the late 1980s. It is named for English mathematician Ada Augusta Byron.

Usage Brit.
Small island in lake or river, small island in river or lake; eyot.

Island in a river; river island; river plain.

ETYM Italian adagio; ad (Latin ad) at + agio convenience, leisure, ease. Related to Agio.
(Music) Slowly.

(Biology) Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; SYN. ventral.
Next to or towards the axis.
On, beside, or turned toward, axis of an organ, organism, or plant.

Congenital absence of fingers and/or toes; SYN. adactyly, adactylism.

1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and progenitor of the human race.
2. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
(Biblical) In the Old Testament, the first human. Formed by God from dust and given the breath of life, Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden, where Eve was created from his rib and given to him as a companion. Because she tempted him, he tasted the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for which trespass they were expelled from the Garden.