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1. Alphabet
   see Greek alphabet.
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2. alphabet
   [n] - a character set that includes letters
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3. alphabet
   See phonetic alphabet
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4. 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...
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5. 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 serie...
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6. Alphabet
   Al'pha·bet transitive verb To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [ R.]
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7. 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. +,...
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8. alphabet
   noun a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. alphabet
    
    • a character set that includes letters
    • the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
    
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13. alphabet
    a set of English letters
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14. 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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15. Alphabet
    Alphabet (from Alpha, and Beta, the two first letters of the Greek alphabet), is the series of characters used in writing a language, and intended to represent the sounds of which it consists.
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16. alphabet
    Set of conventional symbols used for writing, based on a correlation between individual symbols and spoken sounds, so called from alpha (α) and beta (β), the names of the first two letters of the classical Greek alphabet. The earliest known alphabet is from Palestine, about 1700 BC. Alphabetic writing...
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17. Alphabet
    fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. An `alphabet` is a standardized set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which roughly represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past....
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18. Alphabet
    (disambiguation) An `alphabet` is a complete 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 may have been in the past. Alphabets: Other: See also:
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19. Alphabet
    (computer science) In computer science and mathematical logic, an `alphabet` is a non-empty set of publisher=Springer Science+Business Media|Springer |location=year=1994--> (defined at beginning of Part A, Section I)--> The most common alphabet is {0,1}, the `binary alphabet`. A finite Str...
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20. Alphabet
    (song) "`Alphabet`" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear released in 1977 by Ariola Records. Song information: The song`s full title, that appears in I Am a Photograph track listing, is "Alphabet (Prelude in C by J. S. Bach)". It is also known as "My Alphabet...
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