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Adept AI

Adept AI is a San Francisco startup founded in 2022 by former OpenAI and Google engineers to build computer-use agents; its cofounders joined Amazon's AGI organization in 2024.

Oct 15, 2026

The AdeptOne is a four-axis SCARA industrial robot introduced in 1984 by Adept Technology, the first robot to use direct-drive motors, built for high-speed small-parts assembly with ±0.025 mm repeatability.

Oct 15, 2026

ADEQUATE (NMR)

ADEQUATE, short for Adequate sensitivity DoublE-QUAnTum spEctroscopy, is a family of proton-detected, gradient-enhanced two-dimensional NMR experiments introduced in the mid-1990s that establishes carbon-carbon correlations at natural 13C abundance.

Adere

Adere is a 2023 two-player abstract connection game by Drew Edwards, also called Agere on some platforms, played on hexagonal-tile boards; players place or stack-capture stones to connect the board's sides.

Oct 15, 2026

ADESA

ADESA is a North American wholesale used vehicle auction company founded in 1989 and sold to Carvana in 2022, which bought its 56 U.S. auction sites for $2.2 billion.

Adesh Samaroo

Adesh Samaroo, full name Nirmal "Adesh" Samaroo, is a Trinidadian chutney soca singer from Dinsley Village whose 2002 hits, led by "Rum Till I Die", made him a defining voice of the genre's early-2000s boom.

Adesua Etomi

Adesua Etomi (Tolulope Adesua Etomi-Wellington, born 1988, Owerri) is a Nigerian actress and singer; Nollywood star of The Wedding Party, King of Boys, and Gangs of Lagos, 2016 AMVCA Best Actress winner, wife of Banky W.

Adetomiwa Edun

Adetomiwa Edun (Babatunde Adetomiwa Stafford Edun, born 1984, Lagos) is a British-Nigerian RADA-trained actor: Sir Elyan in Merlin, Marcus Young in Bates Motel, Romeo at Shakespeare's Globe (2009), and the motion-capture voice of Alex Hunter in FIFA 17-19.

Adevinta

Adevinta ASA was an Oslo-based online classifieds company spun off from Schibsted in 2019, which ran over 25 marketplaces including Leboncoin and mobile.de before a Permira- and Blackstone-led take-private in 2024.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (born 1967) is a British-Nigerian actor, director, and former model known for Simon Adebisi in Oz, Mr. Eko in Lost, Killer Croc in Suicide Squad, and directing the autobiographical film Farming.

Adeyemi Ajao

Adeyemi Ajao is a venture capitalist who co-founded Base10 Partners in San Francisco after selling the social network Tuenti to Telefonica, and debuted on the Forbes Midas List in 2023.

Oct 22, 2026

Adeyemi I Alowolodu

Adeyemi I Alowolodu was Alaafin of Oyo, ruler of the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo in present-day Nigeria, who reigned from 1876 to 1905 as its independence eroded.

Adeyemi Lawson

Chief Adeyemi Olusola Lawson (1924–1993) was a Nigerian lawyer, industrialist, and chamber-of-commerce leader best known as a founding father of the pan-African Ecobank Group, incorporated in Lomé, Togo, in 1985.

Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi

Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II), born 1974, is the 51st Ooni of Ife, crowned 7 December 2015 after succeeding Oba Okunade Sijuwade; a Nigerian accountant and entrepreneur promoting tourism in Ile-Ife.

ADF 16

ADF 16 (ADF-16) is the development code of flumetylsulforim (DAS-609, trade name Gilboa), a pyrimidine fungicide discovered by Dow AgroSciences in 2011 and developed by Adama; FRAC Group 32, nucleic acid metabolism, aimed at septoria in wheat.

ADH1B

ADH1B (alcohol dehydrogenase 1B, formerly ADH2) is a human gene at 4q23 encoding the class I ADH beta subunit that oxidizes ethanol to acetaldehyde. Its ADH1B*2 (rs1229984) and ADH1B*3 alleles encode fast-ethanol-metabolism enzymes common in East Asian and African ancestry populations that protect against alcohol use disorder.

ADH1C

ADH1C (formerly ADH3), a class I alcohol dehydrogenase gene at 4q23 encoding the gamma subunit that oxidizes ethanol to acetaldehyde; alleles ADH1C*1 (rs1693482) and 2 (rs698) differ about 1.5- to 2-fold in activity and modify alcohol dependence and cancer risk.

Adhah patana

Adhah patana (अधः पातन), downward sublimation of mercury in Ayurvedic Rasashastra: Parada is triturated with Triphala, Shigru, Chitrak, rock salt, and mustard, then heated in the Adhah patana yantra so mercury condenses in the lower pot, purifying it of Doshas.

Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra (अढ़ाई दिन का झोंपड़ा)

Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra (अढ़ाई दिन का झोंपड़ा), also called Dhai Din ka Jhonpra, is an early Sultanate mosque in Ajmer, Rajasthan, built 1192-1213 by Qutb-ud-Din Aibak and Iltutmish over a Chahamana Sanskrit college, with Hindu and Jain spolia.

Adhan (أَذَان)

The adhan (Azaan, Ezan) is the Islamic call to prayer, proclaimed by a muezzin from the minaret at each of the five daily prayer times and before Friday worship.

Adhari Park

Adhari Park (عين عذاري) is an amusement park in Bahrain near Manama, opened April 2008 on 165,000 sq m beside the historic Ain Adhari freshwater spring, with indoor and outdoor rides, karting, and bowling, operated by Adhari Park Development Company.

Adhe Kangal (அதே கண்கள்) (2017 film)

Adhe Kangal (அதே கண்கள்), 2017 Tamil thriller directed by Rohin Venkatesan, produced by C. V. Kumar, starring Kalaiyarasan, Janani Iyer, and Sshivada; blind chef regains sight, searches for missing woman; released 26 January 2017, music by Ghibran.

Adhemar Canavessi

Adhemar Canavessi (also spelled Canavesi), Uruguayan fullback born 1903 in Montevideo, Bella Vista and Peñarol defender, 9 caps, 1928 Olympic football gold medalist, known for the 1927 Copa America own goal.

Adhemar da Silva

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (1927-2001), Brazilian triple jumper, back-to-back Olympic champion Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956, five-time world record holder to 16.56m, first Brazilian with two Olympic golds.

Adherbal (admiral)

Adherbal, known in Greek as Atarbas, was a Carthaginian admiral of the First Punic War who defeated Rome's Claudius Pulcher off Drepana, Sicily, in 249 BC.

Adherbal (governor of Gades)

Adherbal was a Carthaginian magistrate at Gades in 206 BC, recorded by Livy, who was defeated at sea off Carteia by the Roman commander Gaius Laelius.

Adherbal (king of Numidia)

Adherbal was a king of Numidia, son of Micipsa and grandson of Masinissa, who reigned from 118 BC until his cousin Jugurtha killed him at Cirta in 112 BC.

Adherent leukoma

Adherent leukoma (leukoma adhaerens, leucome adhérent): a dense white corneal scar with iris fused to its back surface after corneal perforation; ICD-10 H17.0, ICD-11 9A77.1; treated by keratoplasty.

Adherent prepuce

Adherent prepuce (ICD-11 GB05.4; ICD-10-CM N47) is a foreskin adherent to the glans, making retraction hard. Usually normal childhood preputial adhesions resolving spontaneously, or adhesions after circumcision.