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   Alphabet
   see Greek alphabet.
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   Alphabet
   An alphabet is an ordered series of letters used in language.
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   alphabet
   [n] - a character set that includes letters
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   alphabet
   See phonetic alphabet
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   alphabet
   a table of correspondence between an agreed set of characters and the signals which represent them; a table of correspondence between the written characters together with some of the functions, e.g. spacing, line feed, inversion, etc., and the telegraph signals which represent them Category: News-systems and communications • an ordered character set,the order of which has been agreed u...
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   Alphabet
   Al'pha·bet noun [ Latin alphabetum , from Greek ... + ..., the first two Greek letters; Hebrew āleph and beth : confer French alphabet .] 1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. « The very alphabet of ...
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   Alphabet
   Al'pha·bet transitive verb To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [ R.]
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   alphabet
   1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. ... 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. 'The very alphabet of our law.' (Macaulay) Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology. ... Origin: L. Alphabetum, fr. Gr. +, the first two Greek letters; Heb. Aleph and beth: c ...
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   alphabet
   noun a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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    Alphabet
    An `alphabet` is a standardized set of `letters` — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems of writing such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable, but alphabets are the most widespread writing system. Alphabets are in turn classifi...
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    Alphabet
    • (n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. • (n.) The simplest rudiments; elements. • (v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
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    alphabet
    (from the article `information processing`) At some point in the evolution of written languages, the method of representation shifted from the pictographic to the phonetic: speech sounds began ...
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    alphabet
    set of graphs, or characters, used to represent the phonemic structure of a language. In most alphabets the characters are arranged in a definite ... [9 related articles]
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    alphabet
    
    1. a character set that includes letters
    2. the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
    
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    alphabet
    a set of English letters
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    alphabet
    alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. A system of writing is called a syllabary when one character represents a syllable rath...
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