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接頭辞

alpha-

1. Related to or characteristic of an alphabet or alphabetic characters.

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固有名詞

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.

名詞

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.

アナグラム

• alaph, phaal