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alphabetic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for alphabetic.

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Truncating based on character count can also mean that you exceed your width requirement; CJK characters are twice the width of most alphabetic characters.

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Quick take

An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of alphabetic gathered in one view.

noun

An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.

adjective

Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for alphabetic.

Example sentences

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Truncating based on character count can also mean that you exceed your width requirement; CJK characters are twice the width of most alphabetic characters.

2

The one-time-pad is a special case of any number of poly-alphabetic substitution ciphers, XOR just being one that happens to be implemented on lots of silicon.

3

The point is that a process must be followed, and until it is the Chagossians have no particular claim to this or any other alphabetic string.

4

Implicits combined with non-alphabetic dsls (somewhat combined with the removing the dots from the method calls)..

5

Their evolved descendants are divided into alphabetic or syllabic scripts, both using the symbols to represent sounds but with a different granularity.

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Specially my experience lies in PCI audits, where PCI DSS requirement 8.5.11 says to use passwords containing both numeric and alphabetic characters.

7

Startups built on texting two alphabetic characters are attracting million dollar financing rounds.

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I was hoping this would translate words into emoji clusters based on meaning, maybe with an alphabetic fallback script.

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For n character alphabetic values, it reduces the keyspace from 52^n to 26^n.

10

Outside of Han China and a few other areas in its historical cultural area of influence, alphabetic scripts won over ideographs, and won big time.

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(Jake Weisz made an almost identical assertion on G+) Do you not understand the concept of alphabetic ordering?

12

Becuase our language is not pictographic, it is alphabetic.

Quote examples

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Initially, Bezos wanted a name for his company that began with an "A" for alphabetic list purpose.

2

Arguments such as "We can make one by listing all possible programs in alphabetic order.

3

So I wonder if anybody has ever tried, as a teaching tool, to teach children to read English with an "alphabetic" pronunciation that associates exactly one sound to each letter.

4

Actually this tutor made me realise that I use my index fingers for ~90% of the keys, middle finger for the rest of the alphabetic keys and don't use my ring fingers at all when I type "naturally".

Proper noun examples

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Alphabetic scripts are artefacts of cultures that didn't have access to decent paper, and had to use a small number of simple forms that could be scratched / carved / etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use alphabetic in a sentence?

Truncating based on character count can also mean that you exceed your width requirement; CJK characters are twice the width of most alphabetic characters.

What does alphabetic mean?

An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.

What part of speech is alphabetic?

alphabetic is commonly used as noun, adjective.