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betanumeric

betanumeric adjective: consisting only of digits and lower case consonants except 'l' (letter ell): bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz0123456789.

Adjective

betanumeric (not comparable)

  1. Consisting only of digits and lower case consonants except 'l' (letter ell): bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz0123456789.
    • While any alphanumeric string can be used for the Assigned Name, the specification recommends using a “betanumeric” [12] character set which removes all vowels and the lowercase l (letter ell) to mitigate ambiguity and help limit transcription errors.2020 November, Mat Kelly, Jane Greenberg, Christopher B. Rauch, Sam Grabus, Joan P. Boone, John A. Kunze, and Peter Melville Logan, “A Computational Approach to Historical Ontologies”, in Advanced...
    • Restricting NAANs to betanumerics (alphanumerics without vowels or 'l') serves two goals.2023 November 3, J. Kunze, E. Bermès, “The ARK Identifier Scheme”, in IETF

Questions about betanumeric

What does betanumeric mean?
Betanumeric means consisting only of digits and lower case consonants except 'l' (letter ell): bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz0123456789.
What part of speech is betanumeric?
Betanumeric is an adjective.

Words near betanumeric in the dictionary

  1. betanins
  2. betaninuria
  3. betanodaviral
  4. betanodavirus
  5. betanodaviruses
  6. betanumeric
  7. Betanzos
  8. betapapillomavirus
  9. betapapillomaviruses
  10. betapartitivirus
  11. betapartitiviruses

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