ALPHA

'Alpha' may refer to :-

Contents

The Greek letter alpha

Place names

Media, literature and fiction

Science and mathematics

Computing

Other

See also

The Greek letter alpha

Alpha (letter), a letter in the Greek alphabet. 'α' may be used as the symbol for:

★ Angle of attack in aerodynamics

★ Common-base current gain of a transistor in electronics

★ In physics:

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★ Angular acceleration

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★ Fine-structure constant, a fundamental physical constant

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★ Alpha particle, form of particle radiation

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★ H-alpha, or 'H-α', an emission line created by hydrogen atoms

★ The alpha carbon in organic chemistry

★ In Bayer designation, the typically brightest star in a constellation

★ The significance level in statistical hypothesis testing

★ Alpha channel, describing transparency and opacity in computer graphics

★ The alpha coefficient in evaluating financial returns

★ Thermal diffusivity

Place names

★ Alpha, Michigan

★ Alpha, Minnesota

★ Alpha, New Jersey

★ Alpha, Queensland

★ Alpha Ridge, Atlantic Ocean

★ Alpha Ridge, Alaska

Media, literature and fiction

★ Alpha (band), a British electronic music group

★ Alpha (Sevendust album), an album by the band Sevendust

★ Alpha (album), an album by the band Asia

★ Alpha Magazine, Australian men's sport magazine

★ Alpha (computer), a fictional computer in Mike Walker's radio play ''Alpha''

★ Alpha (search engine), a search engine by Yahoo!

★ , the first Magic: The Gathering cards set

★ Alpha 5/Alpha 6/Alpha 7, nicknames of the characters in the ''Power Rangers'' television programs

★ Alpha 60, a sentient computer in the film Alphaville

★ Alpha TV, a Greek terrestrial channel

★ ARC Trooper A-17, nicknamed "Alpha", a character from various ''Star Wars'' comics

★ The highest social class in Aldous Huxley's novel ''Brave New World''

★ Moonbase Alpha, the primary setting for the television series ''Space: 1999''

★ Alpha (DC Comics), a character from DC Comics

★ Alpha the Ultimate Mutant, a character featured in Marvel Comics

★ Alpha (planet) in Isaac Asimov's novel ''Foundation and Earth''

★ Alpha (known as Proto in Japan) is the glitched prototype of the Internet and final boss of the video game MegaMan Battle Network 3

Science and mathematics

★ Alpha Centauri, the brightest star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus

★ Alpha (biology), "alpha male" and "alpha female", the highest ranking individuals in a community of social animals

★ Alpha (investment), a measurement of risk-adjusted performance

★ Alpha waves, recorded by electroencephalography

★ Cronbach's alpha, a statistical measure of reliability

★ ALPHA, the Antihydrogen Laser PHysics Apparatus, an experiment at CERN.

Computing

★ Alpha (machine learning), the degree to which a learning agent takes into account new information

★ ALPHA refers to the set of ASCII characters A-Z and a-z, as defined in RFC 4234

★ The ALPHA programming language

★ Alpha, a development stage of software

★ DEC Alpha, a microprocessor/central processing unit (CPU)

★ AlphaServer - DEC now HP machine successor to the VAX

★ AlphaStation - DEC now HP workstation successor to the VAX

Other

★ Alpha Dogma, a European secret society which ideology is to enhance life.

★ Alpha chapter, the original or first chapter of a Greek letter society that has multiple chapters across different college or university campuses.

★ Latin alpha, an open front unrounded vowel

★ Space Station Alpha, the original name and unofficial call sign for the International Space Station

★ The first letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet

★ Service "A", one of the uniforms of the United States Marine Corps

★ Alpha (radio navigation), a Russian radio navigation system similar to the former Omega Navigation System

★ Alpha 2000, a light aircraft built in New Zealand

★ Alpha Group, a dedicated counter-terrorism unit that belonged to OSNAZ

★ Alpha class submarine, a Russian fast attack nuclear submarine

★ Alpha course, an introductory course in Christianity

★ Sony α or Sony Alpha, a digital SLR series by Sony

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★ Minolta α or Minolta Alpha, the Japanese name for a series of SLR cameras known as Maxxum or Dynax elsewhere, and predecessor to Sony's brand of the same name

★ Tropical Storm Alpha (2005)

★ Alpha Industries, clothing company

★ Canada Association for Learning & Preserving the History of WWII in Asia, organization
Alpha soca

See also

★ Alfa

★ Beta