ALPHABETS

/ˈæl.fə.bɛts/
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Definition

/ˈæl.fə.bɛts/
noun
  1. The set of letters used when writing in a language.
    “In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.”
  2. 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 syllable.)
  3. A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
    “Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma.”
  4. An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
  5. The simplest rudiments; elements.
verb
  1. To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

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