Lovelace

[ luhv-leys ]

noun

1. Richard, 1618–56, English poet.

Lovelace

/ ˈlʌvˌleɪs /

noun

1. Lovelace, Countess of18151852FEnglishSCIENCE: mathematicianTECHNOLOGY: computer pioneerMISC: daughter of Byron Countess of, title of Ada Augusta King. 1815–52, English mathematician and personal assistant to Charles Babbage: daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program
2. LovelaceRichard16181658MEnglishWRITING: poet Richard. 1618–58, English Cavalier poet, noted for To Althea from Prison (1642) and Lucasta (1649)

Example Sentences

Ms. Lovelace is considered the world’s first computer programmer.

From NewsForKids.net

Ada Lovelace Day – a global annual celebration of women working in Stem – is on borrowed time.

From BBC

Michael Birtwhistle, head of research at the Ada Lovelace Institute research group, believes the technology is so new that the laws have not yet caught up.

From BBC

“Volunteer agreements essentially are just a means of firms marking their own homework,” says Andrew Straight, associate director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research organisation.

From BBC

One piece she’s never heard, however, is Richard Lovelace’s poem “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars,” which ends with the lines “I could not love thee, Dear, so much/Loved I not Honour more.”

From Los Angeles Times