
1) Abc 2) Abcs 3) Cyrillic 4) Letter 5) Rudiment
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1) Basic facts 2) Cast of characters 3) Certain soup contents 4) Character set 5) First elements 6) First-grade subject 7) Formal language 8) Group of letters 9) It goes from A to Z 10) Kind of soup 11) Kindergarten lesson 12) Letters from A to Z 13) Letters of a language 14) List of characters 15) List of letters
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- a character set that includes letters
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
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An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represen...
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[book] alphabet is one of the most well-known poems of Inger Christensen, who was broadly considered to be Denmark`s most prominent poet. The poem was originally published in 1981 in Danish as alfabet. An English language translation by Susanna Nied won the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize in 1982. ==Structure== alphabet is a sys...
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[computer science] For example, using the binary alphabet {0,1}, the strings ε, 0, 1, 00, 01, 10, 11, 000, etc. are all in the Kleene closure of the alphabet (where ε represents the empty string). Alphabets are important in the use of formal languages, automata and semiautomata. In most cases, for defining instances of automata, such as d...
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• (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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(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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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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See phonetic alphabet
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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:...
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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 w...
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Al'pha·bet transitive verb To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. [ R.]
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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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[
n] - a character set that includes letters
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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. English uses the Roman or Latin alphabet, which consists of vowels and consonants.
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see Greek alphabet.
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noun a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
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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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the letters of a language in their customary order. · any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. · any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic alphabet. · first elements; basic facts; simplest rudiments: the alphabet of genetics. · a system of writing, deve...
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(length or width) the measurement of a complete set of lower case alphabet characters in a given type size expressed in points or picas.
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A system of letters intended to represent the sounds of a language in writing. For all west European languages the Latin alphabet has been the outset for their writing systems. However, because each language has a different sound system different combinations of letters have arisen and letters have come to be written with additional symbols attache...
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