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Adinkra symbols
Adinkra symbols are Akan (Asante, Ghana) visual motifs conveying proverbs and philosophy; name means goodbye in Twi; stamped on funerary cloth with calabash stamps and badie-bark ink; Gyaman origins; now global in architecture, diaspora memorials, and AI datasets.
Adiós
Adiós is a 2019 Spanish thriller directed by Paco Cabezas, starring Mario Casas, Natalia de Molina, and Ruth Díaz, set in Seville's Las 3,000 Viviendas, where a girl's accidental death exposes police corruption and drug trafficking; distinct from Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós (2017).
Adios Amigo (2024 film)
Adios Amigo (അഡിയോസ് അമിഗോ) is a 2024 Malayalam comedy-drama road film, Nahas Nazar's directorial debut, starring Asif Ali and Suraj Venjaramoodu as two strangers traveling from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram; released theatrically in August 2024 and on Netflix from September 6, 2024.
Adipic acid
Adipic acid, also known as hexanedioic acid, is a white, odorless crystalline dicarboxylic acid produced industrially from cyclohexane, chiefly as the monomer of nylon 6,6.
Adipocere
Adipocere, also called grave wax or corpse wax, is a waxy, soap-like postmortem substance formed from body fat under anaerobic, moist, warm conditions; it preserves corpses for centuries and complicates forensic time-of-death estimation.
Adipocyte
Adipocyte (fat cell, lipocyte): connective tissue cell storing triglycerides in lipid droplets. Types: white (storage, endocrine), brown and beige (UCP1 thermogenesis), pink. Sizes 15–100 µm; central to lipolysis, leptin secretion, obesity-related metabolic disease.
Adipogenesis
Adipogenesis: differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into white, brown, or beige adipocytes, driven by PPARγ and C/EBP transcription factors; beige fat forms in white adipose tissue on cold exposure.
Adiponectin
Adiponectin (Acrp30, apM1, GBP28) is the most abundant adipose-derived hormone, insulin-sensitizing and anti-atherogenic, reduced in obesity, acting via AdipoR1/R2 and AMPK, with a mortality paradox in advanced disease.
Adiponitrile
Adiponitrile, also called hexanedinitrile or 1,4-dicyanobutane, is an organic dinitrile made mainly by electrochemical hydrodimerization of acrylonitrile or hydrocyanation of butadiene, and hydrogenated to hexamethylenediamine for nylon 6,6.
ADIPOR1
ADIPOR1 (adiponectin receptor 1, PAQR1) is a human chromosome 1q32.1 gene encoding a seven-transmembrane adiponectin receptor with reversed GPCR topology; it activates AMPK signaling, has intrinsic ceramidase activity, and its mutations cause retinitis pigmentosa.
ADIPOR2
ADIPOR2 (adiponectin receptor 2), gene at 12p13.33, encodes a 311-aa seven-transmembrane adiponectin receptor with ceramidase activity and a membrane-fluidity role; no major diabetes-risk variants found.
Adipose tissue
Adipose tissue, also called fatty tissue, is a connective tissue made of fat cells that stores energy, acts as an endocrine organ, and occurs as white, brown, beige, and pink fat.
Adiposis dolorosa
Adiposis dolorosa (Dercum disease, Dercum's disease) is a rare disorder of painful subcutaneous fat with multiple lipomas, mainly in overweight women aged 35-50; diagnosis is clinical and by exclusion.
Adiposity
Adiposity, also called body fat status, is the amount of fat deposited at body sites or organs. Measured by BMI, waist circumference, BIA, DXA, CT, and MRI; visceral fat distribution drives cardiometabolic risk beyond total fat mass.
Adipurana
Adipurana (आदिपुराण) is the name of two Jain narrative classics on the first Tirthankara Rishabhanatha: Jinasena's ninth-century Sanskrit epic and Pampa's Kannada rendering of 941.
Adipurush (आदिपुरुष)
Adipurush (आदिपुरुष), a 2023 Om Raut film adapting the Ramayana, starring Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan, and Kriti Sanon; a big-budget Hindi-Telugu production that drew 7% on Rotten Tomatoes, dialogue controversies, a Nepal ban, and box office failure.
Adire eleko
Adire eleko (àdìrẹ ẹlẹ́kọ) is a Yoruba resist-dyed indigo cloth from south-western Nigeria, first made around 1910 in Lagos and Abeokuta by painting cassava-flour paste onto cotton.
Adireddy Srinivas
Adireddy Srinivas is a Telugu Desam Party politician, MLA for Rajahmundry City (Andhra Pradesh) since June 2024, winning 123,291 votes (67.69%) over YSRCP's Margani Bharat Ram; husband of former MLA Adireddy Bhavani, distinct from Telangana's Aadi Srinivas.
Adirondack (train)
The Adirondack is a daily Amtrak train between New York City and Montreal, launched in 1974 and known for its scenic route along the Hudson and Lake Champlain.
Adirondack High Peaks
The Adirondack High Peaks are 46 Adirondack mountains, originally those believed over 4,000 feet, topped by Mount Marcy (5,344 ft); basis of the Adirondack 46er hiking challenge and the 275,460-acre High Peaks Wilderness.
Adirondack Mountains
Adirondack Mountains: a dome-shaped range in northeastern New York within six-million-acre Adirondack Park; Grenville Province rocks over a billion years old, distinct from the Appalachians; highest peak Mount Marcy at 5,344 feet.
Adirondack Park
Adirondack Park: New York protected area created 1892, about 6 million acres, largest in contiguous US, mixing constitutionally protected Forest Preserve with private land under APA and DEC management.
Adirondack Trailways
Adirondack Trailways is the operating brand of Adirondack Transit Lines, Inc., an intercity bus company founded in 1926 and headquartered in Hurley, New York, serving eastern New York State and Montreal.
Adis Ahmetović
Adis Ahmetović, born 1993 in Hannover, is a German SPD politician who has represented Stadt Hannover I in the Bundestag since 2021 and has served as the party group's foreign policy spokesperson since 2025.
Adishaiva
The Adishaiva (ஆதிசைவர்) are the hereditary Brahman subcaste of Shaiva temple priests of the Tamil country, alone entitled to conduct worship in Agamic Shiva temples, serving as royal preceptors under the Cholas.
Adit
An adit is a horizontal, walkable mine entrance driven into a hillside for access, ventilation, and gravity drainage, with only one opening to the surface.
Adit Swarup
Adit Swarup is a San Francisco venture capitalist who co-founded and led Rakuten Ventures from 2013 to 2024 and now builds General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund.
Adithya RK
Adithya RK is an Indian playback singer known for Tamil films. His catalog has reached about 291.6 million Spotify streams, with his debut song "Bae" from Don in 2022.
Adithya Varma
Adithya Varma (ஆதித்ய வர்மா) is a 2019 Tamil drama, the official remake of Arjun Reddy, directed by Gireesaaya, starring debutant Dhruv Vikram and Banita Sandhu, reshot after Bala's version was scrapped.
Aditi (अदिति)
Aditi (अदिति) is a Vedic Hindu goddess whose name means freedom from bonds; in the Rigveda she is the universal mother, chiefly of the Adityas.