alphabetic
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/
adj
Etymology: Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.
- Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
“Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]”
noun
Etymology: Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.
- An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.
“Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character.”
“The natural sequence of alphabetics is A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z. For some codes, the binary bit patterns of the alphabetics are in the same relative sequence as the alphabetics.”