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alphabetic

/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/

alphabetic adjective: of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.

Adjective

alphabetic

  1. 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 […]1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26
    Synonyms:
    alphabetical

Noun

alphabetic (plural alphabetics)

  1. 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.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

alphabetic meaning in Tamil

alphabetic in Tamil

அகர வரிசைச் சார்ந்த, நெடுங்கணக்குச் சார்ந்த, நெடுங்கணக்கு வரிசை முறையான

Synonyms of alphabetic

Forms of alphabetic

Adjective
alternative form (obsolete)alphabetick
Noun
pluralalphabetics

Origin of alphabetic

Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.

Words formed from alphabetic

Words that rhyme with alphabetic

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Questions about alphabetic

What does alphabetic mean?
Alphabetic means of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
What is alphabetic in Tamil?
Alphabetic in Tamil is அகர வரிசைச் சார்ந்த, நெடுங்கணக்குச் சார்ந்த, நெடுங்கணக்கு வரிசை முறையான. See Alphabetic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is alphabetic?
Alphabetic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce alphabetic?
Alphabetic is pronounced /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/.

Words near alphabetic in the dictionary

  1. alphabetagamma
  2. alphabetarian
  3. alphabetarians
  4. alphabetary
  5. alphabeted
  6. alphabetic
  7. alphabetical
  8. alphabetical jigsaw
  9. alphabetical jigsaws
  10. alphabetical order
  11. alphabetical orders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alphabetic (page history and authors); alphabetic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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