| alpha-test | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an in-house test of a new or modified piece of computer software |
| —vb | |
| 2. | Compare beta-test to test (software) in this way |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |