Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.

Alpha ( uppercase Α, lowercase α ; Álpha ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha, both as a symbol and term, is used to refer to or describe a variety of things, including the first or most significant occurrence of something.

The New Testament has God declaring himself to be the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions.

The first jet aircraft to enter service in October 1980 were six Alpha Jet CI light attack and advanced training aircraft ; six more were ordered, but were subsequently cancelled.

In addition to Alpha Centauri ( the 3rd brightest star in the sky ), a second first magnitude star, Beta Centauri, is part of Centaurus.

The first few generations of the Alpha chips were some of the most innovative of their time.

The first version, the Alpha 21064 or EV4, was the first CMOS microprocessor whose operating frequency rivalled higher-powered ECL minicomputers and mainframes.

The Tarantula research project, which most likely would have been called EV9, would have been the first Alpha processor to feature a vector unit.

* In 1921, members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity ( the first African-American intercollegiate fraternity ) designated Frederick Douglass as an honorary member.

Given Pauling's recent success in discovering the Alpha helix, they feared that Pauling might also be the first to determine the structure of DNA.

* 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.

This melding of scientific and social speculation is clearly present in the novel Voyage from Yesteryear ( strongly influenced by Eric Frank Russell's famous story " And Then There Were None ") about a high-tech anarchist society in the Alpha Centauri system, a starship sent from Earth by a dictatorial government, and the events following their first contact.

As of version 9. 0 ( starting with the first test release after Alpha. 09 ), C-Kermit has an Open Source license, the Revised 3-Clause BSD License.

In 1992, Alpha Oumar Konaré won Mali's first democratic, multi-party presidential election, before being re-elected for a second term in 1997, which was the last allowed under the constitution.

This was encouraged by the support of the first two versions of Microsoft's Windows NT for Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC-and to a lesser extent the Clipper architecture and SPARC.

At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.

* 1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.

" The first of these was The New Mutants, soon followed by Alpha Flight, X-Factor, Excalibur, and a solo Wolverine title.

* January 27 – The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University.

Metroid II is the only game in the series to show every stage of the Metroid creature's development cycle ; the evolution stages that they go through are: Original, Alpha, Gamma, Zeta, Omega, and Queen.

The spectrum of Alpha Persei matches a stellar classification of F5 Ib, revealing it to be a supergiant star in the latter stages of its evolution.

Layer 2 of Nomos Alpha — in contrast to Layer 1 — is not determined by group theory, but is instead, a " continuous motion of registral evolution ".

Alpha Leporis is an older, dying star that may have already passed through a supergiant phase and is now contracting and heating up in the latter phases of stellar evolution, or perhaps is still expanding into the supergiant phase.

First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Wounded ", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet Cardassia Prime.

Alpha hemolytic species cause oxidization of iron in hemoglobin molecules within red blood cells, giving it a greenish color on blood agar.

An amateur ornithologist and botanist falls down a crevice, and wakes up centuries later, in a world where humans live in families, in harmony with each other and animals ; but, where reproduction, emotions, and secondary sexual characteristics are repressed, except for the Alpha males and females ; and, the human species is gradually dying out.

The Alpha acknowledged that, by chasing ' prey ' across the entire Quadrant, the Hirogen people were losing all cultural and national unity and would eventually be overcome by other species.

Alpha males have been known to keep their positions as long as 17 years in this species and this puts them in the unusual position of being available to sire the offspring of their daughters and granddaughters, who produce their first offspring at about 6 – 7 years of age.

In Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ' novel series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Millennium, Riker is freed from the camp by a species called the Grigari and joins them in an attack on the Alpha Quadrant.

Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram negative, Alpha Proteobacteria, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacteria that is the etiologic agent of epidemic typhus, transmitted in the feces of lice.

Notable powers include the Mæsron Alliance ( a union of several species, like the Federation and ISC ; its rise, collapse and renaissance helped define the Octant's history ), the Trobrin Empire ( composed of silicon-based life forms, who consider a ' Silicate Plan ' to rule the galaxy as their only insurance against domination by ' carbonites '), the Probr Revolution ( a species of genetically uplifted salamanders who rose against their creators, then used their technology to forge their own empire ) and the Federal Republic of Aurora ( a collection of exiles from several Alpha Octant empires, involuntarily transferred to the Omega Octant and forced to find their own way amidst the warring factions of Omega ).

Across species, the glutathione S-transferase ( GST ) enzyme superfamily is subdivided into classes: Alpha, Delta, Kappa, Mu, Omega, Pi, Theta, Zeta, and Microsomal.

Statistically, the most significant data have been collected from the sensors on 1958 Alpha ( Explorer 1 ), 1958 Delta 2 ( Sputnik 3 ), and 1959 Eta ( Vanguard 3 ).

The values agree with the data from 1958 Alpha and 1959 Eta.

Therefore, N is inversely proportional to the radius cubed and in fair agreement with the inverse 7/2 power derived from 1958 Alpha and 1959 Eta data.

It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А.

Alpha was derived from aleph, which in Phoenician means " ox ".

* In Mindstorm's Alpha Omega RPG, the world's populations have retreated into arcology city-states to protect themselves from the war-torn decimation of the Earth's surface

Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Alpha Crucis, called Acrux, is a triple star 321 light-years from Earth.

Alpha Ceti, traditionally called Menkar, is a red-hued giant star of magnitude 2. 5, 220 light-years from Earth.

Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars to the Sun, has a high proper motion ; it will be a mere half-degree from Beta Centauri in approximately 4000 years.

Alpha Chamaeleontis is a white-hued star of magnitude 4. 1, 63 light-years from Earth.

The main asterism in Delphinus is Job's Coffin, formed from the four brightest stars: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Delphini.

Alpha Delphini, called Sualocin, is a blue-white hued main sequence star of magnitude 3. 8, 241 light-years from Earth.

The Alpha was designed as 64-bit from the start and there is no 32-bit version.

The brightest star in Equuleus is Alpha Equulei, traditionally called Kitalpha, a yellow star magnitude 3. 9, 186 light-years from Earth.

It borrowed heavily from James M. Ward's earlier product, Metamorphosis Alpha.

Alpha Gruis, called Alnair, is a blue-white star of magnitude 1. 7, 101 light-years from Earth.

Alpha Hydri is a white main-sequence star of magnitude 2. 9, 71 light-years from Earth.

She graduated from Lee in 1964 and went on to attend Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.

Alpha Leporis, the brightest star of Lepus, is a white supergiant of magnitude 2. 6, 1300 light-years from Earth.