Ada may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle'', a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Film and television
* Ada, a character in 1991 movie ''
Armour of God II: Operation Condor''
* ''
Ada... A Way of Life'', a 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed
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Ada (dog actor), a dog that played Colin on the sitcom ''Spaced''
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''Ada'' (1961 film), a 1961 film by Daniel Mann
* Ada TV, a
television channel in Northern Cyprus
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''Ada'' (2019 film), a short biopic about Ada Lovelace
Aviation
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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 Aviation, DHL. Its main base was Tirana Internati ...
, a regional airline based in Tirana, Albania
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Francisco C. Ada Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands
* IATA airport code for
Adana Şakirpaşa Airport in Adana Province, Turkey
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 ...
, a town in Nigeria
Asia
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Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey
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Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Europe
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Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village
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Ada Ciganlija
Ada Ciganlija ( sr-Cyrl, 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 ...
or Ada, a river island artificially turned into a peninsula in Belgrade, Serbia
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Ada, Croatia
Ada ( sr-Cyrl, Ада) is a village in Šodolovci, Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. The settlement was originally a Puszta, pustara, a Pannonian plain, Pannonian type of Hamlet (settlement), hamlet.
A colonist settlement was established there in ...
, a village
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Ada, Serbia
Ada ( sr-cyr, Ада; ) 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 7,423 ...
, a town and municipality
United States
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Ada, Alabama, an unincorporated community
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Ada County, Idaho
Ada County is located in the southwestern part of Idaho, United States. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 494,967, which by 2024 was estimated to have risen to 535,799. Ada County is by far the state's most populous county ...
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Ada, Kansas
Ada is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86. It is located approximately 12 miles west of Minneapolis.
History
Ottawa County was formed in 1860 and organized i ...
, an unincorporated community
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Ada, Minnesota
Ada ( ) is a city in Norman County, Minnesota, Norman County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,740 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat.
Minnesota State Highways Minnesota State Highway 9, 9 and M ...
, a city
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Ada, Ohio
Ada ( ) is a village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States, located about southwest of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 5,334. It is the home of Ohio Northern University.
History
Followi ...
, a village
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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 in ...
, a city
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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 is th ...
, an unincorporated community
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Ada Township, Dickey County, North Dakota
Ada is a township in Dickey County, North Dakota, United States. Its population during the 2020 Census was 29, down from 60 in 2000. Its population in 1900 was 232.
History
Ada Township was first settled in the early 1880s. Originally part of ...
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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 stat ...
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Ada Township, Perkins County, South Dakota
Ada ( ZIP code 57644) is a rural township in Perkins County, South Dakota, with a population of 557.
References
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Ada, West Virginia
Ada is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The Uni ...
, an unincorporated community
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Ada, Wisconsin
Ada is an unincorporated community in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota t ...
, an unincorporated community
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Mount Ada
Mount Ada is a mountain summit in Alaska, United States.
Description
Mount Ada is located on Baranof Island and north of Port Alexander, Alaska. It is set within the South Baranof Wilderness on land managed by Tongass National Forest. The ...
, a mountain in Alaska
Elsewhere
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Ada River (disambiguation), various rivers
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523 Ada, an asteroid
Schools
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Ada High School (Ohio), US
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Ada Independent School District, Oklahoma, US
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Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, a further education college in Tottenham Hale, London
Science and technology
* Ada, the cryptocurrency of the
Cardano blockchain platform
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List of storms named Ada
Biology
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''Ada'' (plant), a genus of orchids
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Ada (protein), an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
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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
Computing
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Ada (computer virus)
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Ada (programming language)
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages. It has built-in language support for '' design by contract'' (DbC), extremely strong typing, exp ...
, programming language based on Pascal
Transportation
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Ada-class corvette, a class of anti-submarine corvettes developed by Turkey
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''Ada'' (ship), a wooden ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
* , a cargo vessel built for the London and South Western Railway
People
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Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (''née'' Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-pur ...
(1815–1852), computer scientist sometimes regarded as the first computer programmer
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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 of Caria (fl. 377 – 326 BCE), satrap of ancient Caria and adoptive mother of Alexander the Great
Other uses
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Ada and Abere, a ceremonial sword of state in Yorubaland and surrounding regions of West Africa
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Ada Bridge, Belgrade, Serbia
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Ada (food), a traditional Kerala delicacy
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Ada Health, a German medical technology company
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Dangme language
The Dangme language, also ''Adangme'', ''Dangbe'' or ''Adaŋgbi'', is a Kwa languages, Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana by the Dangme people ''(Dangmeli)''. They are part of the larger Ga-Dangme people, Ga-Dangme ethnic group. Klogbi ...
(ISO 639-2 and 639-3 code: ada), spoken in Ghana
See also
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ADA (disambiguation)
Ada may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* '' Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle'', a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Film and television
* Ada, a character in 1991 movie '' Armour of God II: Operation Condor''
* '' Ada... A Way of Life'', a 2008 Bollywo ...
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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. Thi ...
, an Escherichia coli adaptive response protein
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Adah (disambiguation)
Adah may refer to:
* Adah, the Adah (Bible), first wife of either Lamech or of Esau
* The name of Jephthah's daughter, according to the Order of the Eastern Star
Places
* Adah, Pennsylvania
* ADAH, acronym for the Alabama Department of Archives a ...
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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)
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Ada'a
Ada'a is a Districts of Ethiopia, woreda in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It is part of the former Ada'a Chukala woreda what was divided between Ada'a and Liben, Oromia, Misraq Shewa (woreda), Liben woredas. Part of the East Shewa Zone located in the Gr ...
, a ''woreda'' in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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Ade (disambiguation)
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USS ''Little Ada'', a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
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