ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Alfa

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Alfa is a noun meaning (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Meaning

(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

More Meanings

  1. (Islam) A West African cleric or religious teacher.
  2. (international standards) Alternative spelling of alpha used in the ruleset of the international nonproprietary name system, where various digraphs are usually deprecated (except for grandfathered exceptions) because their replacement is translingually preferable (thus, for example, f, not ph; t, not th; and e, not ae).

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