Alpha

Noun

Alpha

1. Misspelling of Alfa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Alpha

1. A placename.
   1. A ghost town in California, United States (USA).
   2. A village in Illinois, United States.
   3. A village in Michigan, United States.
   4. A city and village in Minnesota, United States
   5. A borough of New Jersey, United States.
   6. A town in Queensland, Australia.
2. Former name of the International Space Station.
3. (computing) A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004.

Noun

Alpha (plural Alphas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of alpha
2. A member of Generation Alpha.

   Synonyms: Gen Alpha, Generation Alpha

   • 2022 June 28, Shane Wright, Carla Jaeger, “Gen Xers squeezed by their parents, children”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎:

     They are being partially replaced by a new generation – the Alphas, which cover children aged nine or under and account for 12 per cent of all Australians.

   • 2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post‎:

     And if, as Twenge argues, the proliferation of internet-enabled devices is the defining factor in Gen Z’s profile — and the main root of its problems — the Alphas, or Polars, remain an open question.

Anagrams

• alaph, phaal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalfa]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Al‧pha

Noun

Alpha n (strong, genitive Alphas or Alpha, plural Alphas)

1. alpha (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “Alpha” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Alpha” in Duden online