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.
   7. Former name of the International Space Station.
2. (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.

Anagrams

• alaph, phaal

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalfa]

• Audio

  (file)

• 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

Further reading

• “Alpha” in Duden online