Alpha

See also: alpha, alfa, and alpha-

Translingual

Noun

Alpha

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

English

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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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

German

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)

Declension

Declension of Alpha [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Alpha	die	Alphas
genitive	eines	des	Alphas, Alpha	der	Alphas
dative	einem	dem	Alpha	den	Alphas
accusative	ein	das	Alpha	die	Alphas

Related terms

• Alphabet
• Alphamännchen
• Alphaspektrum
• Alphastrahl
• Alphastrahlung
• Alphateilchen
• Alphatier
• Alphazerfall
• alphanumerisch

Further reading

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