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ARPABET

ARPABET is the alternative letter-case form of ARPAbet.

Proper noun capitalized: ARPAbet

ARPAbet

  1. A set of phonetic transcription codes developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
    • The ARPAbet system provides a broad, phonetic transcription that is nearly phonemic.2016, Ronald A. Cole, Perception and Production of Fluent Speech, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of ARPABET

alternative formARPABET

Origin of ARPABET

Blend of ARPA + alphabet.

Questions about ARPABET

What does ARPABET mean?
ARPABET means a set of phonetic transcription codes developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
What is ARPABET the alternative letter-case form of?
ARPABET is the alternative letter-case form of ARPAbet.
What part of speech is ARPABET?
ARPABET is a proper noun.

Words near ARPABET in the dictionary

  1. aroynts
  2. aroze
  3. arp
  4. ARPA
  5. ARPA-E
  6. ARPABET
  7. Arpadian
  8. Arpadians
  9. Arpajon
  10. ARPANET
  11. Arpavon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ARPABET (page history and authors); ARPAbet (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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