Alphanumeric

Definition: Alphanumeric

Alphanumeric

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters.

Specialty Definitions: Alphanumeric

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Alphanumeric A decimal digit or a letter (upper or lower case). Typically, "letters" means only English letters (ASCII A-Z plus a-z) but it may also include non-English letters in the Roman alphabet, e.g., e-acute, c-cedilla, the thorn letter, and so on. Perversely, it may also include the underscore character in some contexts. (1997-09-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace	Including letters and digits.Alphabet plus numeric. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Alphanumeric

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In telecommunication, the term alphanumeric has the following meanings:

1. Pertaining to a character set that contains letters, digits, and sometimes other characters, such as punctuation marks.

2. Pertaining to a set of unique bit patterns that are used to represent letters of an alphabet, decimal digits, punctuation marks, and other special signs and symbols used in grammar, business, and science, such as those displayed on conventional typewriter keyboards.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alphanumeric."

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Synonyms: Alphanumeric

Synonyms: alphameric (adj), alphamerical (adj), alphanumerical (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Alphanumeric

English words defined with "alphanumeric": alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumeric display, alphanumerical ♦ byte ♦ Herman Hollerith, Hollerith. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alphanumeric": blast-through alphanumerics ♦ CFCC ♦ DIFFERENT-FROM operator, display terminal ♦ EARLIER-THAN operator ♦ fac-simile generation ♦ geographic code, goto ♦ IDMS, IXO ♦ miscall alert, mobile data ♦ numeric coding ♦ Portable AIRTIME ♦ RFC 1568 ♦ Short Message Service, short messaging services, Simple Network Paging Protocol ♦ Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol ♦ user name ♦ VDU tasks, VDU work, video data terminal, visual display terminal ♦ wardialer. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Alphanumeric

Domain	Title
Books	1995 Annual Book of Astm Standards: Section 00 Index: Volume 00.01 Subject Index; Alphanumeric List (Subject Index; Alphanumeric List. Issn 0192-299 (reference) Alphanumeric Filing Rules for Business Documents (reference) Annual Book of Astm Standards 1999: Subject Index; Alphanumeric List (Annual Book of A S T M Standards. Volume 00.01, 1999) (reference) Auerbach on alphanumeric displays (reference) College Keyboarding : Complete Course with WordPerfect 5.1 (with alphanumeric software) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Alphanumeric

"Alphanumeric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alphanumeric" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	87	35,390

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Alphanumeric

Expressions using "alphanumeric": alphanumeric characters ♦ alphanumeric display ♦ alphanumeric keyboard ♦ Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alphanumeric

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
alphanumeric	76
alphanumeric pager	45
alphanumeric clothing	17
display alphanumeric lcd	11
alphanumeric paging	9
alphanumeric display	7
led alphanumeric display	5
alphanumeric shoes	4
alphanumeric system	4
alphanumeric paging software	4
alphanumeric character	4
alphanumeric test	3
alphanumeric led	2
alphanumeric inc system	2
alphanumeric code	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alphanumeric

Language		Translations for "alphanumeric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		字母数字 (alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumerical, alphanumerics). (various references)

Danish		alfa-numerisk (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

Dutch		alfanumeriek (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

Finnish		aakkosnumeerinen (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

French		alphanumérique (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical), alpha numérique (ALPHANUM), A.N. (ALPHANUM). (various references)

German		alphanumerisch (alpha numeric, alphabetic-numeric, alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

Greek		άλφα αριθμητικός (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical), αλφαριθμητικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		betû-szám jelcsoportok (alphanumeric characters). (various references)

Italian		alfanumerico (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		英数字 (alphanumeric character). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		えいすうじ (alphanumeric character). (various references)

Korean		수문자 (alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumerical). (various references)

Pig Latin		alphanumericay

Portuguese		alfanumérico (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

Russian		текстовый (characterbound, textual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		alfanumerički. (various references)

Spanish		alfanumérico (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)

Swedish		alfanumerisk (alpha-numeric, alphanumerical, alpha-numerical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Alphanumeric

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alphanumeric": alphanumerical, alphanumerically, alphanumerics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alphanumeric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alphaneumeric, alphanumeri. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Alphanumeric"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alphanumeric" (pronounced a'lfunuwme"rik)
7	-n uw m e" r i k	numeric.
4	-e" r i k	atmospheric, cleric, Derrick, esoteric, generic, hysteric, ionospheric, mesenteric.
3	-r i k	anthropocentric, Baldric, barbaric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, concentric, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hemispheric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, lyric, mercuric, meteoric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, tantric, vampiric, vitric.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Alphanumeric

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-m-n-p-r-u"
	-2 letters: alphameric, unicameral.
	-3 letters: campanile, manipular, marchpane, numerical, paunchier, prelaunch.
	-4 letters: acauline, achenial, airplane, analcime, aphelian, calamine, camphine, camphire, cephalin, chairman, chairmen, chaplain, chimaera, clumpier, eulachan, haulmier, inchmeal, inhauler, launcher, manciple, manicure, manurial, parhelia, parhelic, parlance, pearmain, peculiar, piacular, placeman, plumeria, prehuman, prelunch, punchier, relaunch.
	-5 letters: acaleph, acarine, alumina, alumine, alumnae, anaemic, aphelia, arcanum, archine.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-m-n-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: alphanumerics.
	+2 letters: alphanumerical.
	+4 letters: alphanumerically.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.