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.
"The mathematician spent weeks constructing an adele to analyze how local properties at every prime simultaneously determine global behavior within the ring."
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
"The linguist traveled to northern Ghana to study the tonal patterns of Adele before it faced endangerment from dominant regional languages."
A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.