What does Alphabetical mean?

Definitions for Alphabetical
ˌæl fəˈbɛt ɪ kəlal·pha·bet·i·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alphabetic, alphabeticaladjective

    relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet

    "alphabetical writing system"

  2. alphabetic, alphabeticaladjective

    arranged in order according to the alphabet

    "an alphabetic arrangement"; "dictionaries list words in alphabetical order"

Wiktionary

  1. alphabeticaladjective

    Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.

  2. alphabeticaladjective

    According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.

    All names were placed into an alphabetical list.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Alphabetical, Alphabetickadjective

    In the order of the alphabet; according to the series of letters.

    Etymology: from alphabet; alphabetique, Fr.

    I have now by me, digested in an alphabetical order, all the counties, corporations, and boroughs in Great Britain, with their respective tempers. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. alphabetical

    Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other data types, such as sequences of numbers or other ordered mathematical objects. When applied to strings or sequences that may contain digits, numbers or more elaborate types of elements, in addition to alphabetical characters, the alphabetical order is generally called a lexicographical order. To determine which of two strings of characters comes first when arranging in alphabetical order, their first letters are compared. If they differ, then the string whose first letter comes earlier in the alphabet comes before the other string. If the first letters are the same, then the second letters are compared, and so on. If a position is reached where one string has no more letters to compare while the other does, then the first (shorter) string is deemed to come first in alphabetical order. Capital or upper case letters are generally considered to be identical to their corresponding lower case letters for the purposes of alphabetical ordering, although conventions may be adopted to handle situations where two strings differ only in capitalization. Various conventions also exist for the handling of strings containing spaces, modified letters, such as those with diacritics, and non-letter characters such as marks of punctuation. The result of placing a set of words or strings in alphabetical order is that all of the strings beginning with the same letter are grouped together; within that grouping all words beginning with the same two-letter sequence are grouped together; and so on. The system thus tends to maximize the number of common initial letters between adjacent words.

ChatGPT

  1. alphabetical

    Alphabetical refers to a specific order based on the letters in a standardized alphabet. From A to Z in the English alphabet, for example, things that are arranged alphabetically are sorted based on this predetermined order. This system is commonly used in organizing lists, directories, glossaries, indexes, or any other collection of items for easier reference.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Alphabeticaladjective

    pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement

  2. Alphabeticaladjective

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Wikidata

  1. Alphabetical

    Alphabetical is the second album by the French rock band Phoenix, released in 2004. The album has sold 30,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album has two singles; "Everything Is Everything" and "Run Run Run".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Alphabetical in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Alphabetical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Alphabetical in a Sentence

  1. Rita Holt:

    There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.

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