aleph

[ah-lif; Heb. ah-lef] Origin

a·leph

[ah-lif; Heb. ah-lef]
noun
1.
the first letter of the hebrew alphabet.
2.
the glottal stop consonant or, alternatively, long vowel represented by this letter.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Hebrew āleph, akin to eleph ox
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Aleph is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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aleph (ˈɑːlɪf, Hebrew ˈaːlɛf)
 
n
the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet (א) articulated as a glottal stop and transliterated with a superior comma (`)
 
[Hebrew: ox]

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Word Origin & History

aleph
Heb. and Phoen. letter, c.1300, from Semitic languages, lit. "ox" (the character might have developed from a hieroglyph of an ox's head); see alphabet.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

ALEPH definition


1. A Language Encouraging Program Hierarchy.
2. A system for formal semantics written by Peter Henderson ca. 1970.
[CACM 15(11):967-973 (Nov 1972)].
(1994-12-15)

Aleph definition

text, language
["Aleph: A language for typesetting", Luigi Semenzato and Edward Wang edward@cs.berkeley.edu in Proceedings of Electronic Publishing, 1992 Ed. Vanoirbeek & Coray Cambridge University Press 1992].
(1994-12-15)

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