Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an alphabet; expressed by an alphabet; in the order of the alphabet, or in the order of the letters as customarily arranged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet.
- adjective obsolete Literal.
- adjective in alphabetical order.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to an
alphabet , especially the charactersA toZ , bothuppercase andlowercase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective arranged in order according to the alphabet
- adjective relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet
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Examples
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To learn to decode words in alphabetic systems like English, it is necessary to understand that the letters in text represent the phonemes in speech.
Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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This fundamental of reading is called alphabetic, which is taught through the techniques of phonemic awareness, word analysis, phonics, and sight words.
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Omniglot is an interesting site about writing systems, which it classifies in alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, and alternative systems describing real and fictitious languages.
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In Odas elementales (1954 - 1959) his message is expanded into a more extensive description of the world, where the objects of the hymns - things, events and relations - are duly presented in alphabetic form.
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Reading involves matching letters and letter sequences to phonemes - speech specific sounds - a thing called the alphabetic principle. 7 month old babies haven't developed language, so how can they grasp the alphabetic principle?
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I admit to being a bit confused as to what actually comprises the Cathemerinon; some sources seem to indicate that it's a long I guess "alphabetic"; 2 x 26 = 52? hymn of 52 stanzas, but this Project Gutenberg book seems to say that the whole collection of hymns of Prudentius is called The Cathemerinon.
"The Hymns of Prudentius, translated by R. Martin Pope" bls 2009
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I admit to being a bit confused as to what actually comprises the Cathemerinon; some sources seem to indicate that it's a long I guess "alphabetic"; 2 x 26 = 52? hymn of 52 stanzas, but this Project Gutenberg book seems to say that the whole collection of hymns of Prudentius is called The Cathemerinon.
Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009
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Consequently, according to RFC 2234, "alphabetic" corresponds to the Latin alphabet character ranges a-z and A-Z.
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2009
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The name "alphabetic" can take a suffix indicating the character encoding associated with the subset: alphabetic/1252
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The first kind of alphabetic numerals and also the word-system (in both of which the place value is used) are plays upon, or variations of, position arithmetic, which would be most likely to occur in the country of its origin. [
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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