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| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Digital Differential Analyzer) An incremental differential analyzer, usually electronic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DDA | Danish | Dansk Dataarkiv | Social Sciences |
DDA | Dutch | Digitale differentiaalanalysator | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
DDA | English | Disability and Discrimination Act | N/A |
DDA | French | Didésoxyadénosine | Medicine |
DDA | German | Dideoxyadenosin | Medicine |
DDA | Greek | διδεοξυαδενοσίνη | Medicine |
DDA | Italian | Didesossiadenosina | Medicine |
DDA | Portuguese | Dose diária admissível | Chemical Industry |
ddA | Spanish | Didesoxiadenosina | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Shown are polarized crystals photographed through the microscope of the drug 2'3'-dideoxyadenosine, ddA, a drug that is closely related to AZT, azidothymidine. The antiviral effect of ddA against HIV was discovered at the National Cancer Institute, when trying to find a drug to treat patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Credit: Larry Ostby (photographer). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | United Kingdom | In March the Government responded to a disability rights task force report by announcing new measures to cover nearly 7 million jobs previously excluded from the DDA, such as police, firefighters, and prison officers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DDA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "DDA" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dda | 94 |
dda maryland | 4 |
account dda | 3 |
5ne ` `ng `ng anh bie cho cu dda dda.i dzu em email kho la la` ng ng ng o o ph ra shinichi85 t t tu tu u ve vie y | 3 |
dda delhi | 2 |
1t dahlquist dda | 2 |
dda console | 2 |
algorithm dda drawing line | 2 |
dda inc.com | 2 |
dda inc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "DDA": addable, addax, addaxes, beddable, biddabilities, biddability, biddable, biddably, cheddar, cheddars, chuddah, chuddahs, chuddar, chuddars, forbiddance, forbiddances, giddap, goddam, goddammed, goddamming, goddamn, goddamned, goddamning, goddamns, goddams, goddaughter, goddaughters, granddad, granddaddies, granddaddy, granddads, granddam, granddams, granddaughter, granddaughters, keddah, keddahs, khaddar, khaddars, midday, middays, riddance, riddances, sanddab, sanddabs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: add, dad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d" | |
-1 letter: ad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d" | |
+1 letter: adds, dada, dado, dads, dead, duad, dyad. | |
+2 letters: addax, added, adder, addle, aided, audad, baddy, caddy, dadas, daddy, dados, dandy, dared, dated, dawed, dazed, deads, dedal, dread, dryad, duads, dyads, faddy, faded, gaddi, gadid, haded, hodad, jaded, laded, paddy, readd, waddy, waded. | |
+3 letters: abided, aboded, addend, adders, addict, adding, addled, addles, adduce, adduct, adored, alidad, aoudad, audads, badder, baddie, badged, balded, banded, barded, beaded, bladed, caddie, caddis, cadged, candid, carded, caudad, dabbed, daddle, dadoed, dadoes, daedal, daffed, daledh, dammed, damned, damped, danced, dander, dandle, danged, dapped, darked, darned, darted, dashed, daubed, dauted, dawdle, dawned, dawted, daybed, deaden, deader, deadly, deaned, deaved, decade, dedans, delead, demand, deodar, desand, diacid, diadem, dialed, didact, doated, doodad, dorado, dorsad, dotard, draped, drayed, dreads, dryads, dyadic, evaded, fadged, farded, gadded, gadder, gaddis, gadids, gadoid, giddap, goaded, goddam, graded, handed, headed, hodads, keddah, ladder, laddie, ladled, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, loaded, madded, madden, madder, mediad, midday, misadd, ogdoad, outadd, padded, padder, paddle, radded, raddle, raided, readds, sadden, sadder, saddhu, saddle, sanded, shaded, spaded, traded, undead, wadded, wadder, waddie, waddle, waddly, warded, woaded, yarded, zaddik. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 44 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. -.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D D A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0044 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383835 |
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