Alphabetic Meaning
/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
nounAn alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.
Sentence Examples
Alphabetic script on signs on streets and buildings is just boring, some think.
I take part of the alphabetic mafia.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The librarian sorted the books in ____ order by the author's last name.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The files were organized in ____ order to make them easier to find.
Word Origin & History
Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]"
— 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26:
"Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character."
— 1960, Peter C. Tosini, Magnetic Drum Directory and Programming System for Codesorting Letter Mail, page 32:
"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."
— 1980, Charles E. Mackenzie, Coded Character Sets: History and Development, page 33:
"Subparagraphs are identified by lower case alphabetics followed by numerics and alphabetics in parentheses and then underlined numerics and alphabetics."
— 1987, United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Logistics) ·, MILSTAMP TACs, page 15:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The librarian sorted the books in ____ order by the author's last name.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The files were organized in ____ order to make them easier to find.