ada

1. 1.

   an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia

   “ADA deficiency can lead to one form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease”

   “the gene encoding ADA was one of the earlier human genes to be isolated and cloned for study”

   Synonymsadenosine deaminase

   Broaderenzyme

Other forms of ada

plural

adas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ada

What does ada mean?

ada means "an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia".

How many syllables are in ada?

ada has 2 syllables: a-da. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈeɪdə/.

What is another word for ada?

Close synonyms include adenosine deaminase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ada a common word?

ada is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.