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alephs

alephs is the plural of aleph.

Meaning of aleph

Noun

aleph (plural alephs)

  1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
  2. The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
    • The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph.

Questions about alephs

What is alephs the plural of?
Alephs is the plural of aleph.

Words near alephs in the dictionary

  1. aleph-null
  2. aleph-one
  3. aleph-zero
  4. alephbet
  5. alephbets
  6. alephs
  7. alepidote
  8. alepidotes
  9. alepine
  10. alepines
  11. alepisaurid

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