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noun

alpha

the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet

In a sentence

Six example sentences with alpha, each labelled with its topic.

  • The lab notebook marked each sample with a Greek letter, and the earliest batch simply carried alpha.

    Science

  • Our guild names its raid squads after Greek letters, so the first squad on the bracket carries alpha.

    Gaming

  • The poet numbered her sonnet cycle with Greek letters, opening at alpha and closing, twenty-three poems later, at omega.

    Literature

  • Aristotle's Metaphysics opens with a book editors have always labeled alpha, following the Greek habit of numbering by letter.

    Philosophy

  • Greek merchants wrote alpha for the number one, since their counting system borrowed the letters in order.

    History

  • When the font team added Greek script, the designer drew alpha first and matched every other letter's weight to it.

    Technology

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