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al·pha·bet  (lf-bt, -bt)
n.
1. The letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom.
2. A system of characters or symbols representing sounds or things.
3. A set of basic parts or elements: genetic markers . . . that contain repeated sequences of the DNA alphabet (Sandra Blakeslee).

[Middle English alphabete, from Latin alphabtum, from Greek alphabtos : alpha, alpha; see alpha + bta, beta; see beta.]
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alphabet  /lfbt/  n. 1 the letters in a language: The English alphabet has 26 letters. 2 alphabet soup: a mixture of many different things: The population of North America is an alphabet soup of people from Argentina to Zimbabwe. alphabet

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