Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Consisting of both letters and numbers.
  • adjective Consisting of or using letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and mathematical and other conventional symbols.

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  • adjective Consisting of letters and numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9
  • adjective Consisting of these characters plus punctuation and other special characters
  • noun An alphanumeric character.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[alpha(betic) + numeric(al).]

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alpha(betic) + numeric

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Examples

  • "Unearthed" allegedly focuses on a young girl who is pronounced dead, and when she's taken off of life support, she "wakes up screaming in alphanumeric code."

    ‘Fringe’ Goes Back To Season One For ‘Unearthed,’ A Never-Before-Seen Episode » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • The Internet is going to do a lot more to change performance-based poetry, include the necessarily performance - or video-based poets of American Sign Language, than to change the kind of poems I write and (mostly) read, shortish works in alphanumeric script in Western languages, created for silent reading on the page.

    no telling : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • The unique identifier, called a alphanumeric characters, such as, for example, uuid: 4CD7E4BC-648B-426D-9936-443EAAC8AI.

    SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services 2009

  • The keys on a computer keyboard can be classified as alphanumeric keys (letters and numbers), punctuation keys (comma, period, semicolon, etc.), and special keys (function keys, control keys, arrow keys, Caps Lock key, etc.).

    FEMIKNITMAFIA 2009

  • The unique identifier, called a alphanumeric characters, such as, for example, uuid: 4CD7E4BC-648B-426D-9936-443EAAC8AI.

    SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services 2009

  • Some of the solutions that work people such as alphanumeric passwords doesn't work for people like me who have to deal with strict password policies.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • In fact, keys such as alphanumeric keys are not supposed to be used as modifier keys.

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • "We have now identified the computers using the old Microsoft and upgraded them, which means that even in the unlikely event of a successful attack, it would take months to decrypt the information; strong passwords (such as alphanumeric combinations) could take years," he said.

    unknown title 2009

  • To those uninitiated to alphanumeric symbols there is no information in a newspaper.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • Total alphanumeric discrimination in the guise of orderly process.

    Matthew Yglesias » Alphabetism 2010

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