Adi Explained

Adi or ADI may refer to:

Names and titles

• Adi (mythology), an Asura in Hindu faith who appears in the Matsya Purāṇa
• Adi (name), a given name in Hebrew and a nickname in other languages
• Adi (title), a Fijian title used by females of chiefly rank
• Adi Shankara, the First Shankara, Indian philosopher, founder of the Advaita-Vedanta school and the religious order

Places

• Adi (Khanapur), Belgaum District, Karnataka, India
• Adi (Chikodi), Belgaum District, Karnataka, India
• Ahmedabad Junction railway station, Ahmedabad, India (code ADI)
• Adi, Israel, a community settlement in northern Israel
• Adi Island, an island in West Papua, Indonesia
• Arandis Airport, Arandis, Namibia (IATA: ADI)

Organizations

• ADI Corporation, a defunct Taiwanese computer monitor manufacturer
• Aerodynamics Inc., a small airline in the US
• Aircraft Designs Inc, an aircraft design firm in Monterey, California
• Alfred Deakin Institute, at Deakin University, in Geelong, Australia
• American Documentation Institute, former name of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• Analog Devices, Inc., producer of semiconductors
• Animal Defenders International, a nonprofit campaigning group
• Associazione per il Disegno Industriale
• Australian Defence Industries, former name of Thales Australia
• Australian Doctors International
• Independent Democratic Action (Portuguese: Acção Democrática Independente), a political party in São Tomé and Príncipe

Abbreviations

• Acceptable daily intake, in health and medicine
• Acting detective inspector, a type of police inspector
• Africa Development Indicators, a compilation of data assembled by the World Bank
• Alternating direction implicit method for solving partial differential equations
• Ángeles del Infierno, a Spanish heavy metal band
• Anti-detonant injection, another name for water injection in internal combustion engines
• Approved Driving Instructor, a qualified UK car driver trainer
• Area of dominant influence, term used by Arbitron in media marketing
• Authorised deposit-taking institution, a corporation authorised under the Australian Commonwealth Banking Act 1959
• Autism Diagnostic Interview, a parent interview used to aid diagnosis of autism

Other uses

• Adinatha, 1st Jain Tirthankara
• ADI 4277 and ADPF 132 v. Brazilian civil union, actions to civil union equality
• Adi (film), a 2023 Indian Malaylam-language comedy-drama film
• Adi people, a tribe living in Arunachal Pradesh, India
  • Adi language, the Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Adi
• Adi language (Galo), a related language spoken by the Galo people of Arunachal Pradesh
• Adi tala, a tala (rhythm) in Carnatic music
• Banu Adi, a clan of the Quraish tribe of Mecca
• Mancala, a variant of the game
• Adi Parva, the first book of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata

See also

• • • • Aadi (disambiguation)
• Addi (disambiguation)
• Adhi (disambiguation)
• Adis (disambiguation)
• ADY (disambiguation)