Definitions for "ADL"
Tasks performed routinely by the resident to maintain bodily functions (e.g. personal hygiene, walking, eating, dressing, bathing, transferring.)
Activity of daily living
ADLs are a set of physical abilities (e.g., bathing, dressing, walking, transferring in and out of a chair or bed, toileting, and eating) essential to independent living.
Initiative by the U.S. Department of Defense to achieve interoperability across computer and Internet-based learning courseware through the development of a common technical framework, which contains content in the form of reusable learning objects. See also SCORM and the ADL Website.
A set of standards designed to facilitate the sharing of learning objects across disparate learning management systems. Back to top of glossary
Advanced Distributed Learning. The ADL initiative of the U.S. government aims to "ensure access to high-quality education and training materials that can be tailored to individual learner needs and can be made available whenever and wherever they are required". Support from the President, Congress, the Government Accounting Office (GAO), as well as other government agencies, the private sector, and academia has since led to the capturing of a common vision for pursuing this technology.
Architecture description language. A language (graphical, textual, or both) for describing a software system in terms of its architectural elements and the relationships among them.
Acronym for ActiveWorks Definition Language. The file format for exporting and importing webMethods Enterprise Server configuration data, including document type definitions, infosets and more.
Openwings uses the Architectural Definition Language to model service-oriented problems. Details can be found under Design Topics of the Openwings tutorial.
Keywords:  justice, wizeer, theology, god, harmony
justice; in law, the quality required to be a legal witness; in religion, the state of personal perfection of one who fulfills God's teaching; in philosophy, the harmony among the faculties of the soul.
Adl is an Arabic term roughly meaning "Justice". It is used in the everyday sense of the word: for example, wizeer al-'adl translates to "The Minister of Justice." In Islamic theology, it refers to God's divine justice.
Aspire Defence Limited. The Special Purpose Vehicle specifically set up to deliver the Allenby/Connaught PFI Project
Animal Defense League
Anti-Defamation League
Antwerp Diamond Laboratory GIA Gemological Institute of America
Keywords:  pannier, beast, burden, equity, bags
equity, the root of this word refers to the balance obtained when the two pannier-bags on either side of a beast of burden are of equal weight.
Keywords:  armistice, demarcation, line, see
See armistice demarcation line.
Keywords:  daw, edl, accurate, sample, editing
A sample-accurate EDL generated by a DAW rather than a video editing system.
Keywords:  muntins, lites, stationary, sash, true
Authentic Divided Lites. Also known as True Divided Lite. Permanent stationary muntins and bars separate the glass in a window or door sash to give the sash two or more lites of glass.
Keywords:  den, leader, assists, person
Assistant Den Leader. A person who assists the Den Leader.
Keywords:  african, library, digital
The African Digital Library