Alphabetic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Alphabetic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
Meaning
Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
More Meanings
- An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.
Example Sentences
Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]
Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character.
Subparagraphs are identified by lower case alphabetics followed by numerics and alphabetics in parentheses and then underlined numerics and alphabetics.
The natural sequence of alphabetics is A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z. For some codes, the binary bit patterns of the alphabetics are in the same relative sequence as the alphabetics.
Word Forms
- alphabetick
- alphabetics
Synonyms for alphabetic
Depending on context, synonyms include alphabetical, alphabetized, abecedarian.
Antonyms for alphabetic
Common opposites include analphabetic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alphabetical, alphabetized, abecedarian, alphabet, letter, alpha.
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