Alphabet (disambiguation)

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The alphabet (from ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος alphábētos , analogously the "ABC") stands for:

  • (the) alphabet , in linguistics the set of letters from which the words of a human written language are composed
  • (the) alphabet, someone who can read (as opposed to the illiterate )
  • Alphabet (letterpress) , in letterpress a sequence of 23 printed sheets
  • Alphabet (film) , Austrian documentary about education by Erwin Wagenhofer
  • Alphabet (computer science) , in computer science a finite set of symbols as a prerequisite for a formal language
  • Alphabet (cryptology) , in cryptology any ordered arrangement of symbols as the basis for plain text or ciphertext
  • Alphabet (mathematics) , in mathematics a non-empty (possibly infinite) set as a prerequisite for a formal language
  • Alphabet Inc. , a California holding company founded in August 2015 to restructure the Google Group
  • Alphabet International GmbH, international fleet service provider of the BMW Group

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Wiktionary: Alphabet  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations