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adeles

adeles is the plural of adele.

Meaning of adele

Noun

adele (plural adeles)

  1. An 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.

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Proper noun capitalized: Adeles

Adeles

  1. (plural) plural of Adele

Questions about adeles

What is adeles the plural of?
Adeles is the plural of adele.
What part of speech is adeles?
Adeles is a proper noun.

Words near adeles in the dictionary

  1. adelaster
  2. adelasters
  3. Adelbert
  4. adele
  5. Adelene
  6. adeles
  7. Adelfy
  8. adelgid
  9. adelgids
  10. Adeli suit
  11. Adeli suits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adeles (page history and authors); Adeles (page history and authors); adele (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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