ADS

(AutoCAD Development System) A facility that allows C routines to be run from within AutoCAD.

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A share issued under deposit agreement that represents an underlying security in the issuer's home country.

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The terms American depositary receipt (ADR) and American depositary share (ADS) are often thought to mean the same thing. However, an ADS is the actual share trading, while an ADR represents a bundle of ADSs.

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Share issued under a deposit agreement representing the underlying ordinary share which trades in the issuer's home market. The terms ADS and ADR tend to be used interchangeably. Technically, the ADS is the instrument that actually is traded, while the ADR is the certificate that represents a number of ADSs.

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ADS or Ads may refer to:

In computing:

• Advanced Design System, an EDA tool from Agilent EEsof EDA
• Advantage Database Server, a Relational Database Management System
• Alternate data stream, a filesystem fork in Microsoft NTFS
• Astrophysics Data System, an online database of scientific papers from NASA
• Automated decision support, rule-based systems that automatically provide solutions to management problems

In other uses:

• ADS (TV station), a television station in Adelaide, South Australia
• Accelerator-driven system
• Active Denial System, a non-lethal, directed-energy weapon system under development by the U.S. military.
• Advertisements
• Air Defence Ship, project name for India's Vikrant class aircraft carrier
• Aitken Double Star Catalogue
• American Depositary Share
• American Dialect Society
• Atmospheric diving suit
• Autonomous Detection System
• Addison Airport's IATA airport code
• Ardrossan Harbour railway station's National Rail code

See also

• Anti de Sitter space or AdS_n
• Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast or ADS-B

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