adele

plural adeles

1. mathematicsAn infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.

plural Adeles

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.

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   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.

   1833, E. Littell, “On Grand Christian Names”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 211

1. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.