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Alphabet and Alphabets Definitions

Alphabet

The letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom.

Alphabets

The letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom.

Alphabet

A system of characters or symbols representing sounds or things.

Alphabets

A system of characters or symbols representing sounds or things.

Alphabet

A set of basic parts or elements
"genetic markers ... that contain repeated sequences of the DNA alphabet"(Sandra Blakeslee).
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Alphabets

A set of basic parts or elements
"genetic markers ... that contain repeated sequences of the DNA alphabet"(Sandra Blakeslee).

Alphabet

The set of letters used when writing in a language.
The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.

Alphabets

Plural of alphabet

Alphabet

A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.

Alphabet

A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. Contrast e.g. abjad.
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Alphabet

(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma.

Alphabet

An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

Alphabet

The simplest rudiments; elements.

Alphabet

An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.

Alphabet

(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
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Alphabet

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Alphabet

The simplest rudiments; elements.
The very alphabet of our law.

Alphabet

To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Alphabet

A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language

Alphabet

The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural);
He mastered only the rudiments of geometry

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