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ADP

ADP is the initialism of adenosine diphosphate.

ADP is the abbreviation of adposition.

ADP is the initialism of Automatic Data Processing.

Meaning of adenosine diphosphate

Noun

adenosine diphosphate (uncountable)

  1. A nucleotide, the result of adenosine triphosphate losing a phosphate group in metabolism.
    Synonyms:
    ADP

Meaning of adposition

Noun

adposition (plural adpositions)

  1. An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
    • Throughout this book, I have assumed that adpositions (prepositions and postpositions) are not lexical categories, but rather functional categories.[…]While this view of adpositions is far from unprecedented, it runs contrary to the more standard generative treatment, championed by Jackendoff...2003, Mark C. Baker, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives, Cambridge University Press, page 303
    Synonyms:
    preposition

Forms of ADP

pluralADPs

Questions about ADP

What is ADP the initialism of?
ADP is the initialism of adenosine diphosphate.

Words near ADP in the dictionary

  1. adoxographies
  2. adoxographs
  3. adoxography
  4. adoze
  5. adozelesin
  6. ADP
  7. ADP-ribose
  8. adpao
  9. adpaos
  10. adparticle
  11. adparticles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ADP (page history and authors); adenosine diphosphate (page history and authors); adposition (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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