ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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

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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