# UAE

Pronunciation: say "yoo-ay-EE" /ju eɪ ˈi/

## Proper noun

1. Initialism of the United Arab Emirates. — Initialism of the United Arab Emirates: a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
   - Simple: Short form of the United Arab Emirates. This is a country in the Middle East.
   - _The UAE hosts major international conferences every year._
   - _Tourists from around the world visit the UAE for its modern attractions._
3. Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator. — Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator.
   - Simple: Short form of Unix Amiga emulator. This is software that lets one computer act like an Amiga.
   - _Enthusiasts used UAE to revive software written for the Amiga._
   - _UAE recreates the original hardware environment so old programs run unchanged._

## Noun

2. Initialism of unrecoverable application error. *(obsolete)* — Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)
   - Simple: Short form of unrecoverable application error. An old message on early Windows computers when a program broke and could not go on.
   - _Win16 applications would sometimes halt with a UAE, forcing a full restart._
   - _A UAE left users with no option but to reboot the machine._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/uae (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).