* in genetics, ADA is the abbreviation of Adenosine deaminase enzyme

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

A contraction is an abbreviation, but an abbreviation is not necessarily a contraction.

In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

* Aperture priority, Av ( Aperture value ) is a common abbreviation on a camera mode dial

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

This is a paradise for hunters.

`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??

There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.

It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

Although the ceiling is riotously rich in illusionistic elements, the narratives are framed in the restrained classicism of High Renaissance decoration, drawing inspiration from, yet more immediate and intimate, than Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling as well as Raphael's Vatican Logge and Villa Farnesina frescoes.

The ' Glass Ceiling ' of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the denouement is set.

The Polychrome Ceiling is the most impressive feature of the cave, depicting a herd of extinct Steppe Bison ( Bison priscus

The Federal Glass Ceiling Commission and independent research suggest that the underlying cause of the glass ceiling is the perception of many white males that as a group they are losing control and opportunity.

* Stained-Glass Ceiling is a sociological phenomenon in religious communities similar to the concept of the " glass ceiling.

* Concrete Ceiling – This is a term used to describe the type of barrier minority woman encounter.

A fusion of fabulism with magic realism is apparent in such early 21st century American short stories as Kevin Brockmeier's " The Ceiling ", Dan Chaon's " Big Me ", Jacob M. Appel's " Exposure ", and Elizabeth Graver's " The Mourning Door ".

" The dye-transfer process resulted in some of Eggleston's most striking and famous work, such as his 1973 photograph entitled The Red Ceiling, of which Eggleston said, " The Red Ceiling is so powerful, that in fact I've never seen it reproduced on the page to my satisfaction.

* Ceiling is insulated

Opened in September 1907, it included a Tiffany Ceiling that is both the first and largest ceiling ever built in favrile glass, containing over 1. 6 million pieces.

In the Immediate Ceiling Priority Protocol ( ICPP ) when a task locks the resource its priority is temporarily raised to the priority ceiling of the resource, thus no task that may lock the resource is able to get scheduled.

The Original Ceiling Priority Protocol ( OCPP ) has the same worst-case performance, but is subtly different in the implementation which can provide finer grained priority inheritance control mechanism than ICPP.

ICPP is called " Ceiling Locking " in Ada, " Priority Protect Protocol " in POSIX and " Priority Ceiling Emulation " in RTSJ.

In 1967, Terayama formed the Tenjō Sajiki ( 天井桟敷 ) theater troupe, whose name comes from the Japanese translation of the 1945 Marcel Carné film " Les Enfants du Paradis ", so can be translated as " children of heaven ", however its correct translation is " Ceiling Gallery " and has a meaning similar to the English expression " Peanut Gallery ".

The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie Dancing on the Ceiling music video.

In 2010, Twombly ’ s permanent site-specific painting, Ceiling was unveiled in the Salle des Bronzes at the Musée du Louvre ; he is only the third artist to have been invited to do so.

* Pariente is Jewish and has received the Palm Beach County Jewish Federation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 and the Jewish Museum's " Breaking the Glass Ceiling " award in 2002.