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Translingual
[edit]Noun
[edit]Alpha
- Misspelling of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alpha
- A placename.
- A ghost town in California, United States (USA).
- A village in Illinois, United States.
- A village in Michigan, United States.
- A city and village in Minnesota, United States
- A borough of New Jersey, United States.
- A town in Queensland, Australia.
- Former name of the International Space Station.
- (computing) A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004.
Noun
[edit]Alpha (plural Alphas)
- Alternative letter-case form of alpha
- A member of Generation Alpha.
- Synonyms: Gen Alpha, Generation Alpha
- 2022 June 28, Shane Wright, Carla Jaeger, “Gen Xers squeezed by their parents, children”, in The Sydney Morning Herald[1]:
- They are being partially replaced by a new generation – the Alphas, which cover children aged nine or under and account for 12 per cent of all Australians.
- 2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post[2]:
- And if, as Twenge argues, the proliferation of internet-enabled devices is the defining factor in Gen Z’s profile — and the main root of its problems — the Alphas, or Polars, remain an open question.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Alpha n (strong, genitive Alphas or Alpha, plural Alphas)
- alpha (Greek letter)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Alpha [neuter, strong]
Related terms
[edit]- Alphabet
- Alphamännchen
- Alphaspektrum
- Alphastrahl
- Alphastrahlung
- Alphateilchen
- Alphatier
- Alphazerfall
- alphanumerisch
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