| alphabet | |
| 1. n. The set of letters used when writing in a language. | |
| The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters. | |
| In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet. | |
| 2. n. 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 syllabl | |
| 3. n. A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.) | |
| 4. n. (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols. | |
| LetL be a regular language over the alphabet\Sigma. | |
| 5. n. (India, Hong Kong, Singapore) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character. | |
| 6. n. The simplest rudiments; elements. | |
| 7. v. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically. | |
