Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
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Ada Foah
Ada Foah is a town on the southeast coast of Ghana, where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The town is located along the Volta River, off of the Accra- Aflao motorway. Known for palm-lined beaches and estuary islands, Ada Foah is also t ...
, a town in Ghana
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Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
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Ada, Osun
Ada is a town in the Boripe Local Government area of Osun State, Nigeria. A town headed by Oba Oyetunde Olumuyiwa Ojo (The Olona of Ada), Ada has the biggest market in the local government area and it generated the highest revenue for it. Some o ...
, a town in Nigeria
Asia
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Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey
Europe
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Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ada is a village in the municipalities of Odžak ( Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Vukosavlje (Republika Srpska), Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia ...
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Ada, Croatia, a village
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Ada, Serbia
Ada ( sr-cyr, Ада; hu, Ada) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated near the river Tisa in the geographical region of Bačka. The town has a population of ...
, a town and municipality
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Ada Ciganlija
Ada Ciganlija ( sr-cyr, Ада Циганлија, ), colloquially shortened to Ada, is a river island that has artificially been turned into a peninsula, located in the Sava River's course through central Belgrade, Serbia. The name can also ref ...
or Ada, a river island artificially turned into a peninsula in Belgrade, Serbia
United States
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Ada, Alabama
Ada is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, Montgomery County, Alabama, United States. Ada is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 331 (Alabama), U.S. Route 331 and Alabama State Route 94, south of M ...
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Ada County, Idaho
Ada County is located in the southwestern part of Idaho, United States. As of the 2021 United States census estimate, the county had a population of 511,931, making it by far the state's most populous county; it is home to 26.8% of the state's ...
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Ada, Kansas
Ada is an unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 86. It is located approximately 12 miles west of Minneapolis.
History
Ottawa County was fo ...
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Ada Township, Michigan
Ada Township ( ) is a civil township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,388 at the 2020 census.
The majority of the township is included in the Forest Hills census-designated place, which is used only for stati ...
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Ada, Minnesota
Ada ( ) is a city in Norman County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,740 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat.
Minnesota State Highways 9 and 200 are two of the main routes in the city.
History
Ada was laid out in 1874 a ...
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Ada Township, Dickey County, North Dakota
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Ada, Ohio
Ada ; ; is a village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States, located about southwest of Toledo. The population was 5,952 at the 2010 census.
History
Following the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, the Shawnee Indians held reservation land at Hog Cre ...
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Ada, Oklahoma
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census. The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was inc ...
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Ada, Oregon
Ada is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, at the intersection of Fiddle Creek, Canary, and Ada Roads, about 10 miles Southeast of the junction of Canary Road with Oregon Highway 101. Nearby Siltcoos Lake
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Ada Township, Perkins County, South Dakota
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Ada, West Virginia
Ada is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cla ...
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Ada, Wisconsin
Ada is an unincorporated community in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is ...
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Other
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Ada River (disambiguation) Ada River may refer to the following watercourses:
In Australia
* Ada River (Baw Baw, Victoria), a watercourse in the Shire of Baw Baw of Victoria
* Ada River (East Gippsland, Victoria), a tributary of the Bemm River in the Shire of East Gippslan ...
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523 Ada
Ada ( minor planet designation: 523 Ada) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered January 29, 1904, by American astronomer Raymond S. Dugan at Heidelberg, Germany and was named after his friend Ada Helme. CCD images collected during ...
, an asteroid
Film and television
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Ada TV
Ada TV, is a television channel which broadcasts in both satellite and terrestrial in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
On 20 July 2008, the prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Prime ...
, a television channel in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
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''Ada'' (1961 film), a 1961 film by Daniel Mann
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''Ada'' (2019 film), a short biopic about Ada Lovelace
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Ada... A Way of Life'', a 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed
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Ada (dog actor)
''Spaced'' is a British television sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright, about the (comedic and sometimes farcical and action-packed) misadventures of Daisy Steiner and Tim Bi ...
, a dog that played Colin on the sitcom ''Spaced''
* Ada, one of the main characters in 1991 movie
''Armour of God II: Operation Condor''
Biology
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''Ada'' (plant), a genus of orchids
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Adenosine deaminase
Adenosine deaminase (also known as adenosine aminohydrolase, or ADA) is an enzyme () involved in purine metabolism. It is needed for the breakdown of adenosine from food and for the turnover of nucleic acids in tissues.
Its primary function ...
, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism
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Ada (protein) Ada, also called as ''O''6 alkyl guanine transferase I (''O''6 AGT I), is an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells with alkylating agents that mainly cause methylation damage. This phenomenon is called the adaptive response hence the name ...
, an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
Computer science
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Ada (programming language), programming language based on Pascal
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Ada (computer virus)
Air travel
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Ada Air
Ada Air Sh.p.k was a regional airline based in Tirana, Albania, which operated from 1991 to 2007. It operated scheduled services from Albania to Bari, Italy, and overnight freight services for DHL. Its main base was Tirana International Airport N ...
, a regional airline based in Tirana, Albania
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Francisco C. Ada Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands
Schools
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Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, a further education college in Tottenham Hale, London
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Ada High School (Ohio)
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Ada Independent School District
The Ada Independent School District is a school district based in Ada, Oklahoma (United States). It includes seven schools and serves more than 2,600 students. , Oklahoma
People
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Ada (name), a feminine given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters
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Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), computer scientist sometimes regarded as the first computer programmer
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Ada of Caria
Ada of Caria ( grc, Ἄδα) (fl. 377 – 326 BC)377 BC is the date of her father's death: was a member of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap and later as Queen un ...
(fl. 377 – 326 BCE), satrap of ancient Caria and adoptive mother of Alexander the Great
Other uses
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List of tropical storms named Ada
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Ada (food)
Ada ( ml, അട) or Ela Ada, is an Indian sweet and traditional Kerala delicacy, consisting of rice parcels encased in a dough made of rice flour, with sweet fillings, steamed in banana leaf and served as an evening snack or as part of break ...
, a traditional Kerala delicacy
* Ada, the cryptocurrency of the
Cardano blockchain platform
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Ada Bridge
The Ada Bridge ( sr-cyr, Мост на Ади, Most na Adi) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia. The bridge crosses the tip of Ada Ciganlija island, connecting the municipalities of Čukarica and New Belgrade. The ...
, Belgrade, Serbia
* , a cargo vessel built for the London and South Western Railway
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''Ada'' (ship), a wooden ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
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Ada class, a class of anti-submarine corvettes developed by Turkey
* ''
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle'', novel by Vladimir Nabokov
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Dangme language, spoken in Ghana (ISO 639-2 and 639-3 code "ada")
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Ada Health GmbH, a symptom checker app
See also
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ADA (disambiguation)
Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
* Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
* Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
* Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
* Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, T ...
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Ada regulon In DNA repair, the Ada regulon is a set of genes whose expression is essential to adaptive response (also known as "Ada response", hence the name), which is triggered in prokaryotic cells by exposure to sub-lethal doses of alkylating agents. This a ...
, an Escherichia coli adaptive response protein
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Adah (disambiguation)
Adah may refer to:
* Adah, the first wife of either Lamech or of Esau
* The name of Jephthah's daughter, according to the Order of the Eastern Star
* The name of The Orozco's first born daughter
Places
* Adah, Pennsylvania
* ADAH, acronym for th ...
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Adha (disambiguation) Adha may refer to:
* Adha (tetragraph)
*Eid al-Adha
*American Dental Hygienists' Association
See also
* Ada (disambiguation)
* Adah (disambiguation)
Adah may refer to:
* Adah, the first wife of either Lamech or of Esau
* The name of Jephthah's d ...
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Ada'a
Ada'a is a woreda in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It is part of the former Ada'a Chukala woreda what was divided between Ada'a and Liben woredas. Part of the East Shewa Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Ada'a is bordered on the south by Dugda Bo ...
, a ''woreda'' in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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Ade (disambiguation)
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USS ''Little Ada'' (1864), a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
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