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Alphabet

/ˈæl.fə.bɛt/

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

📖 Definitions of "Alphabet"

noun
  1. 1

    The set of letters used when writing in a language.

    "In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet."

  2. 2

    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.)

  3. 3

    A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.

    "Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma."

  4. 4

    An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.

verb
  1. 1

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

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