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1 countess
noun1) the wife or widow of an earl or count.كونتيسا: زوْجَة أو أرمَـلَـة الكونْت2) a woman of the same rank as an earl or count in her own right.كونتيسّـا: لَقَب نباله للسيِّده -
2 Byron, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 12 December 1815 Piccadilly Terrace, London, Englandd. 23 November 1852 East Horsley, Surrey, England[br]English mathematician, active in the early development of the calculating machine.[br]Educated by a number of governesses in a number of houses from Yorkshire to Ealing, she was the daughter of a hypochondriac mother and her absent, separated, husband, the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. As a child a mysterious and undiagnosed illness deprived her "of the use of her limbs" and she was "obliged to use crutches". The complaint was probably psychosomatic as it cleared up when she was 17 and was about to attend her first court ball. On 8 July 1835 she was married to William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace. She later bore two sons and a daughter. She was an avid student of science and in particular mathematics, in the course of which Charles Babbage encouraged her. In 1840 Babbage was invited to Turin to present a paper on his analytical engine. In the audience was a young Italian military engineer, L.F.Menabrea, who was later to become a general in Garibaldi's army. The paper was written in French and published in 1842 in the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève. This text was translated into English and published with extensive annotations by the Countess of Lovelace, appearing in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs. The Countess thoroughly understood and appreciated Babbage's machine and the clarity of her description was so great that it is undoubtedly the best contemporary account of the engine: even Babbage recognized the Countess's description as superior to his own. Ada often visited Babbage in his workshop and listened to his explanations of the structure and use of his engines. She shared with her husband a love of horse-racing and, with Babbage, tried to develop a system for backing horses. Babbage and the Earl apparently stopped their efforts in time, but the Countess lost so heavily that she had to pawn all her family jewels. Her losses at the 1851 Derby alone amounted to £3,200, while borrow-ing a further £1,800 from her husband. This situation involved her in being blackmailed. She became an opium addict due to persistent pain from gastritis, intermittent anorexia and paroxys-mal tachycardia. Charles Babbage was always a great comfort to her, not only for their shared mathematical interests but also as a friend helping in all manner of small services such as taking her dead parrot to the taxidermist. She died after a protracted illness, thought to be cancer, at East Horsley Towers.[br]Further ReadingD.Langley Moore, 1977, Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter, John Murray.P.Morrison and E.Morrison, 1961, Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engine, Dover Publications.Biographical history of technology > Byron, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace
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3 Comitissa (Latin: Countess , Codices And Manuscripts)
Abbreviation: COУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Comitissa (Latin: Countess , Codices And Manuscripts)
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4 Not an acronym. Ada is the DoD standard programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter, the Countess of Lovelace, considered to be the world's first computer programmer.
Abbreviation: AdaУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Not an acronym. Ada is the DoD standard programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter, the Countess of Lovelace, considered to be the world's first computer programmer.
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5 Lovelace, Ada, Countess of
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Countess — Allg … Deutsch Wikipedia
Countess — Count ess (kount ?s), n.; pl. {Countesses} ( ?s). [F. comtesse. See {Count} a nobleman.] The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
countess — mid 12c., adopted in Anglo Fr. for the wife of an earl, from M.L. cometissa, fem. of L. comes count (see COUNT (Cf. count) (n.)) … Etymology dictionary
countess — ► NOUN 1) the wife or widow of a count or earl. 2) a woman holding the rank of count or earl … English terms dictionary
countess — [kount′is] n. [ME countesse < OFr contesse < ML cometissa: see COUNT2 & ESS] 1. the wife or widow of a count or earl 2. a noblewoman whose rank is equal to that of a count or earl … English World dictionary
Countess of Eu — See also: Count of Eu Contents 1 Countess consort of Eu 1.1 House of Normandy, 996–1246 1.2 House of Lusignan, 1219–1260 1.3 … Wikipedia
Countess — Coun|tess 〈[ kaʊntıs] f.; , es [ tısız]; engl. Bez. für〉 Gräfin (Frau eines Earls od. Counts) * * * Coun|tess [ ka̮untɪs ], die; , es […tɪsɪz], auch en [… tɛsn̩] [engl. countess < frz. comtesse, ↑ Komtess]: 1. <o. Pl.> englischer Titel… … Universal-Lexikon
countess — /kown tis/, n. 1. the wife or widow of a count in the nobility of Continental Europe or of an earl in the British peerage. 2. a woman having the rank of a count or earl in her own right. [1125 75; ME c(o)untesse < AF. See COUNT2, ESS] Usage. See… … Universalium
countess — UK [ˈkaʊntɪs] / US [ˈkaʊntəs] noun [countable] Word forms countess : singular countess plural countesses a woman who is a member of the nobility. A countess is either a woman with the same rank as an earl or a count, or the wife of an earl or… … English dictionary
countess — A title used by the wife or widow of a count, the wife or widow of an earl or a woman who, in her own right, has a position equal to that of a count or earl. Charlotte Brontë, in Villette, has: ‘I am a countess now. Papa, mamma and the girls… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
countess — [[t]ka͟ʊntɪs[/t]] countesses N COUNT; N TITLE; N VOC A countess is a woman who has the same rank as a count or earl, or who is married to a count or earl. ...the Countess of Lichfield … English dictionary
