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(computers) A computer programming language, used by the Department of Defense and named after Lord Byron's daughter, a friend and collaborator of Charles Babbage who conceived the first operating computer.
Ãâó: connectors.tycoelectronics.com/glossary/
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| ADA |
Americans with Disabilities Act. Federal law requiring handicapped access to all public spaces, including subways and buses.
Ãâó: home.att.net/~alabianca/glossary.html
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| adaptation |
Changes in an organism's structure or habits that allow it to adjust to its surroundings.
Ãâó: www.streamnet.org/pub-ed/ff/Glossary/glossaryfish....
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| adaptation |
To adjust to new conditions.
Ãâó: www.methodfitness.com/fitness_glossary.shtml
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| adaptive radiation |
Evolutionary divergence of members of a single phylogenetic line into a variety of different adaptive forms; usually the taxa differ in the use of resources or habitats, and have diverged over a relatively short interval of geologic time. The term evolutionary radiation describes a pattern of rapid diversification without assuming that the differences are adaptive.
Ãâó: evolution.unibe.ch/teaching/GlossarE.htm
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