English-Dutch translations for alphabet

• alfabet
  Dat is het elementaire alfabet dat volgens de quantummechanica trilt. This is the elementary alphabet and this alphabet vibrates in quantum mechanics.
  Gewoon omdat het in de Europese Unie zo gaat: men heeft nog maar net A gezegd of het hele alfabet is al opgebruikt. Well, the fact is that when someone says 'A' in the European Union, it is not long before the whole alphabet has been used.
  Achter welke letters van het alfabet de terroristen hun wreedheid verbergen, heeft geen enkel belang. It does not matter what letters of the alphabet the terrorists use to camouflage their atrocities.
• abc

Definition of alphabet

• The set of letters used when writing in a language
• A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
• A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols
• An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character
• The simplest rudiments; elements
• To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically

Examples

• The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters
• In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet
• Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma

Related words

• alphabetic
• alphabetical
• alphabetically
• alphabetize
• alphabetise
• analphabet
• alphabetised
• alphabetisation
• alphabetization