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Ada or ADA may refer to:
People
- St. Ada, a 7th-century French abbess.
- Ada, Countess of Atholl (died 1264)
- 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)
- Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, recognized as the first computer programmer
Places
- Ada, Ghana
- Ada, Serbia
- Ada County, Idaho, U.S.
- Ada, Minnesota, U.S.
- Ada, Ohio, U.S.
- Ada, Oklahoma, U.S.
- Ada Township, Michigan, U.S.
- Ada River, New Zealand
Media
Television and film
- Ada (film), a 1961 film directed by Daniel Mann, with Susan Hayward and Dean Martin
- ADA...A Way of Life, a 2008 Bollywood musical directed by Tanvir Ahmed
- Ada (dog actor), who played Colin on the sitcom Spaced
Books
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, a 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Video games
- 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
- ADA, a character in the Zone of the Enders video game franchise
Music
- Alternative Distribution Alliance, a music distributor owned by Warner Music Group
Politics and government
- American Dietetic Association
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Aeronautical Development Agency of India's Ministry of Defence
- Air Defense Artillery, a branch of the United States Army
- Americans for Democratic Action, anticommunist liberal lobby
- Amazon Development Agency (Agência de Desenvolvimento da Amazônia), a development agency in Brazil
- Assistant district attorney, a staff member under a district attorney
Air travel
- Aerolínea de Antioquia, a Colombian Airline
- Airline Deregulation Act, a 1978 US bill removing governmental control from commercial aviation
- The IATA code for International Adana Şakirpaşa Airport in Adana, Turkey
Science and technology
Computing
- Ada (programming language), a programming language based on Pascal
- Ada (computer virus), a memory resident, file infecting computer virus which infects COM files
Medicine
Enzymes
- Adenosine deaminase, an enzyme involved in purine metabolism
- Ada (protein), an enzyme induced by treatment of bacterial cells
Botany
- Ada (orchid), a genus of orchids
Other
- Adangme language, a Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana
- Advanced Distribution Automation, the extension of intelligent control over an electrical power grid
- Amigos dos Amigos, one of the three main drug cartels in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
- American Decency Association, a non-profit Christian right organization
- Aqua Design Amano, Takashi Amano's aquarium product line
- Association of Drainage Authorities, a membership body for those involved in water level management in the United Kingdom
See also
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