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Alphabet
/ˈæl.fə.bɛt/
The set of letters used when writing in a language.
📖 Definitions of "Alphabet"
noun
- 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
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
A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
"Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma."
- 4
An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
verb
- 1
To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
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