What does Alpha mean?

Definitions for Alpha
ˈæl fəal·pha

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alphanoun

    the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet

  2. alphaadjective

    the beginning of a series or sequence

    "the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelations

  3. alphaadjective

    first in order of importance

    "the alpha male in the group of chimpanzees"; "the alpha star in a constellation is the brightest or main star"

  4. alphaadjective

    early testing stage of a software or hardware product

    "alpha version"

Wiktionary

  1. alphanoun

    The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (, u03B1), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.

  2. alphanoun

    Latin alpha

  3. alphanoun

    The name of the symbols and u03B1 used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.

  4. alphanoun

    The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.

  5. alphanoun

    An alpha male.

  6. alphanoun

    Alphabet.

  7. alphaadjective

    Designates the first in an order of precedence.

    I am the alpha male.

  8. alphaadjective

    Designates the brightest star in a constellation.

    When space travel becomes feasible, I plan to visit Alpha Centauri.

  9. Etymology: From the, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician aleph.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ALPHAnoun

    The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first.

    I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelat.

Wikipedia

  1. Alpha

    Alpha (uppercase Α, lowercase α; Ancient Greek: ἄλφα, álpha, or Greek: άλφα, romanized: álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , which is the West Semitic word for "ox". Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A and the Cyrillic letter А.

ChatGPT

  1. alpha

    Alpha is a term with several different meanings depending on its context. However, in general, it is often used to refer to the first or primary one in a set, the starting point, or something that is dominant. It is the first letter in the Greek alphabet. In finance, it refers to the excess return of an investment relative to the return of a benchmark index. In biology, it denotes the dominant individual in a community, such as the alpha male or female. In physics, it might represent a specific type of decay or a specific constant or coefficient.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Alphanoun

    the first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning

  2. Etymology: [L. alpha, Gr. 'a`lfa, from Heb. leph, name of the first letter in the alphabet, also meaning ox.]

Wikidata

  1. Alpha

    Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter aleph . Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А. In English, the noun "alpha" is used as a synonym for "beginning", or "first", reflecting its Greek roots.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Alpha

    al′fa, n. the first letter of the Greek alphabet: the first or beginning. [Gr. alpha—Heb. aleph, an ox, the name of the first letter of the Phœnician and Hebrew alphabet. See A.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ALPHA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Alpha is ranked #48347 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Alpha surname appeared 437 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Alpha.

    75.2% or 329 total occurrences were White.
    20.8% or 91 total occurrences were Black.
    1.6% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.1% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.1% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Alpha' in Nouns Frequency: #2826

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Alpha in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Alpha in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Alpha in a Sentence

  1. Viviane Labrie:

    Alpha-synuclein is a protein that doesn't like to stay put. It's able to move from neuron to neuron, and it has been shown that it can travel.

  2. The Sigma Alpha Mu board:

    Sigma Alpha Mu's values and standards of conduct were violated by the actions of those members whose behavior was abhorrent.

  3. Paul Mahagi:

    The two male giraffes were fighting to become the alpha male. Its quite rare to see and really brutal to watch, you could hear the noises of the cracking when they hit their necks.

  4. Rochelle Walensky:

    We do know that the antigen test may not perform as well as it had for prior variants – the alpha variant and the delta variant – but it’s still picking up quite a bit of infection.

  5. Philip Lubin:

    We could propel a 100 kilogram robotic craft to Mars in a few days. If you want to push something like shuttle class, it takes you roughly in order of month to get there, within 25 year light of Earth, there are actually quite a few potential exoplanets and habitable things to visit - that may be habitable. We don’t know of course. There are many targets to choose from. The closest is Alpha Centauri, which is about four light years away.

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