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Adjusted gross income
Adjusted gross income (AGI) is a US taxpayer's total gross income minus specified above-the-line adjustments from Schedule 1 of Form 1040, reported on line 11; it gates credits, MAGI tests, and 31 states' income taxes.
Adjusted Rand index
The Adjusted Rand index (ARI) is a chance-adjusted measure comparing two clusterings of the same items, equaling 1.0 for identical partitions and near 0.0 for random labelings.
Adjusting Sights
Adjusting Sights (Te'um Kavanot) is a 1999 war novel by Israeli rabbi Haim Sabato about a yeshiva student serving as a tank gunner in the Yom Kippur War.
Adjustment disorder
Adjustment disorder (F43.2x) is a trauma- and stressor-related mental disorder with emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor; DSM-5-TR subtypes include depressed mood, anxiety, and mixed forms, with talk therapy as first-line treatment.
Adjutant
Adjutant: a military appointment, from Latin adiutare "to help," for an officer assisting a commander with administration and orders; in Francophone armies a senior NCO rank. Related to Adjutant General, chief administrative officer of an army or state National Guard.
Adjutant general
Adjutant general: a military's chief administrative officer. In the US, the federal Army branch (AG Corps, est. 1950) and each state's TAG heading the National Guard; first held by Horatio Gates in 1775.
Adjutant General's Corps
The Adjutant General's Corps (AG Corps) is the U.S. Army branch, dating to Horatio Gates' 1775 appointment, that provides manpower, human resources, and band support and manages Army personnel life-cycle functions; distinct from the larger British Army corps of the same name.
Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy
Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy is concurrent chemotherapy and radiation given after cancer surgery to eliminate residual microscopic disease, established in glioblastoma and endometrial cancer but contested in pancreatic cancer.
Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Adjuvant chemotherapy, also called preventative chemotherapy, is anticancer drug treatment given after surgery to kill remaining cells and prevent recurrence; contrasted with neoadjuvant chemotherapy given before surgery, with established uses in breast, colorectal, lung, and other cancers.
Adjuvant immunotherapy
Adjuvant immunotherapy gives immune checkpoint inhibitors such as pembrolizumab and nivolumab after complete tumor removal or chemoradiation, aiming to eradicate residual microscopic disease and prevent relapse.
Adjuvant Radiotherapy
Adjuvant radiotherapy: radiation given after primary cancer treatment (usually surgery) to reduce recurrence. Used in breast, cervical, and selected lung and prostate cancers; benefits and harms vary by stage and risk.
ADL (album)
ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love) is American rapper Yeat's sixth studio album, a 21-track double album released March 27, 2026 on Capitol, featuring Elton John, Kid Cudi, Grimes, and Kylie Jenner, with mostly negative critical consensus.
Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914), Illinois Democrat, 23rd U.S. vice president (1893–1897) under Grover Cleveland, former congressman and First Assistant Postmaster General, 1900 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, grandfather of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II.
Adlai Stevenson II
Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965), Illinois governor, two-time Democratic presidential nominee (1952, 1956), and JFK's UN ambassador famous for confronting Valerian Zorin with missile photos during the Cuban Missile Crisis and championing the 1963 test ban treaty.
Adlai Stevenson III
Adlai Stevenson III (1930-2021), Illinois Democrat, U.S. senator 1970-1981 and first Senate Ethics Committee chairman; son of Adlai Stevenson II and great-grandson of VP Adlai Stevenson; lost Illinois governor races in 1982 (by 5,074 votes) and 1986 as Solidarity Party independent.
Adler (cars and motorcycle)
Adler, also known as Adlerwerke, was a Frankfurt vehicle manufacturer founded in 1880 that built cars from around 1900 to 1939 and motorcycles until 1958 before becoming Triumph-Adler.
Adler (locomotive)
The Adler (German for "Eagle") was a steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson & Co. in 1835 and the first used commercially in Germany, on the Nuremberg–Fürth railway.
Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium is a public museum of astronomy and space science in Chicago, opened in 1930 as the first planetarium in the western hemisphere.
Adley Rutschman
Adley Rutschman, American MLB catcher (born 1998, Portland, OR), 2019 No. 1 overall pick by Orioles out of Oregon State, three-time All-Star, traded to Boston Red Sox August 3, 2026.
Adli Yakan
Adli Yakan (عدلي يكن) was an Egyptian statesman who served three times as prime minister of Egypt, from 1921 to 1930, and founded the Liberal Constitutionalists' Party.
Adlinda
Adlinda is an 840 km multi-ring impact basin (large ringed feature) on Jupiter's moon Callisto at 48.5S, 35.6W, IAU-named 1979 from Eskimo myth; third largest after Valhalla and Asgard, oldest and most degraded, partly buried by Lofn ejecta.
ADLINK Technology
ADLINK Technology (凌華科技) is a Taiwanese industrial computing company founded in 1995 in Taipei, making embedded computers, rugged systems, and edge AI platforms for robotics and automation.
Adluri Laxman Kumar
Adluri Laxman Kumar (అడ్లూరి లక్ష్మణ్ కుమార్), Congress MLA for Dharmapuri (SC), Telangana, won the seat in 2023 with 91,393 votes and serves as SC, ST Welfare Minister.
Adly Mansour (عدلي محمود منصور)
Adly Mansour (عدلي محمود منصور), born 1945, Egyptian judge, president of the Supreme Constitutional Court from 2013, and interim President of Egypt July 4, 2013 to June 8, 2014 after Morsi's removal.
ADM (company)
ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland Company), NYSE: ADM, is a Chicago-based agricultural processor and nutrition company founded in 1902 as Daniels Linseed Co., operating Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition segments worldwide.
ADM Capital; Cibus Capital
ADM Capital is a private credit investment manager founded in 1998 during the Asian Financial Crisis, focused on Asia-Pacific lending; its London entity became Cibus Capital in 2022.
ADM formalism
The ADM formalism, or ADM formulation, is a reformulation of general relativity that splits spacetime into spatial slices, recasting Einstein's equations as a constrained Hamiltonian system.
ADMB
ADMB (AD Model Builder) is a free, open source software suite for non-linear statistical modeling, created by David Fournier in the 1980s and widely used in fisheries science.
ADME
ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) describes a drug's fate in the body, central to pharmacokinetics and drug development, where poor ADME properties cause nearly half of candidate losses and drive IVIVE, allometric scaling, and PBPK prediction methods.
Admella
The Admella, an iron steamer built in Glasgow in 1857, was wrecked off Cape Banks, South Australia, in 1859, killing 89 of the 113 aboard.