/ay"deuh/ , n.
1. a city in central Oklahoma. 14,509.
2. Douay Bible. Adah.
3. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning "noble."
/ay"deuh/ , n. Computers.
a programming language particularly suited to real-time applications: developed for use by the U.S. Department of Defense.
[ named after Augusta Ada (Byron), Countess of Lovelace (1815-37), English mathematician, who assisted Charles Babbage in developing a precursor of the modern computer ]