adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth rammed earth, material consisting chiefly of soil of sufficiently stiff consistency that has been placed in forms and pounded down. It has been used for buildings and walls since ancient times and was employed in some of the most ancient fortifications in the Middle
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adobe

Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. As a building material, adobe dates back thousands of years and is found in many parts of the world. Molds for shaping the bricks were brought to the New World by the Spanish. Excellent insulating properties make adobe an ideal material for both dwellings and ovens; home interiors retain heat in winter and stay cool in summer. The adobe buildings at Taos, N.M., are typical of Native American pueblo dwellings.

Adobe

(Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.adobe.com) The leading graphics and desktop publishing software company. Founded in 1982 by Dr. John Warnock, Adobe helped pioneer desktop publishing with its fonts and applications. Initially developed for the Macintosh, Adobe's PostScript fonts have become the standard among graphics and printing service bureaus. Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Type Manager are examples of world-class software that spearheaded the industry. With Adobe's 1995 acquisitions of PageMaker and FrameMaker, Adobe became the preeminent graphics design and desktop publishing software company.

Its 2005 purchase of Macromedia Inc. gave it a significant leg up on Web design and Internet publishing, as well as delivering digital content to mobile devices, via Macromedia's Flash and Dreamweaver software line of products.

adobe [ə′dō·bē]

(geology)

Heavy-textured clay soil found in the southwestern United States and in Mexico.

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