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Adele vs Dele - What's the difference?

adele | dele |

As a noun adele

is (mathematics) a member of a self-dual topological ring built on the field of rational numbers (or, more generally, any algebraic number field), and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.

As a contraction dele is

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adele

English

Etymology 1

Anglicized form of , the (etyl) equivalent of Adela .

Proper noun

(s)
  • .
  • * 1833 The New Monthly Magazine , E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):
    • The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele , Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.

    • See also

    * (Adele language) * (ade) *

    Anagrams

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    dele

    English

    Verb

    (d)
  • (printing, usually, imperative) to delete

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (printing) a sign signifying deletion

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