Alpha ( Α or α ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

On the other hand, it is sometimes pointed out that the capital Latin letter " A " is not unified with the Greek letter " Α " ( Alpha ).

* Lehigh University is " PA Α " or " Pennsylvania Alpha " ( 1885 )

Alpha and Omega, alpha ( α or Α ) and omega ( ω or Ω ), are the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet and are an appellation of Christ or of God in the Book of Revelation.

The term Alpha and Omega comes from the phrase " I am the alpha and the omega " ( Koiné Greek: τὸ Α καὶ τὸ Ω ), an appellation of Jesus in the Book of Revelation ( verses 1: 8, 21: 6, and 22: 13 ).

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Alpha ( Α ), being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant but the accompanying vowel, and hence the Latin A and Cyrillic А.

Currently 15 episodes have been released in three separate volumes, namely Gundam Evolve ../+ (" Plus "), Gundam Evolve ../ Ω (" Omega ") and Gundam Evolve ../ Α (" Alpha ").

Thus book 1 is called Alpha ( Α ); 2, little alpha ( α ); 3, Beta ( Β ); 4, Gamma ( Γ ); 5, Delta ( Δ ); 6, Epsilon ( Ε ); 7, Zeta ( Ζ ); 8, Eta ( Η ); 9, Theta ( Θ ); 10, Iota ( Ι ); 11, Kappa ( Κ ); 12, Lambda ( Λ ); 13, Mu ( Μ ); 14, Nu ( Ν ).

Arcturus (; α Boo, α Boötis, Alpha Boötis ) is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes and in fact the northern celestial hemisphere.

This makes Arcturus the third brightest individual star, just ahead of Alpha Centauri A ( α Cen A ), whose visual magnitude is − 0. 01.

Antares ( α Scorpii, α Sco, Alpha Scorpii ) is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky.

Altair ( Alpha Aquilae, Alpha Aql, α Aquilae, α Aql, Atair ) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky.

) For example, Aldebaran is designated α Tauri ( pronounced Alpha Tauri ), which means " Alpha of the Bull ".

Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.

Alpha particles ( α ) are stopped by a sheet of paper while beta particles ( β ) are stopped by an aluminium plate.

Thuban also known by its Bayer designation Alpha Draconis ( α Draconis, α Dra ) is a star ( or star system ) in the constellation of Draco.

Vega ( α Lyr, α Lyrae, Alpha Lyrae ) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.

Alpha amylase degrades starch to a mixture of the disaccharide maltose, the trisaccharide maltotriose, which contains three α ( 1-4 )- linked glucose residues, and oligosaccharides known as dextrins that contain the α ( 1-6 )- linked glucose branches.

Alpha Cygni ( α Cyg ) variables are nonradially pulsating supergiants of spectral classes B < sub > ep </ sub > to A < sub > ep </ sub > Ia.

Alpha Arietis ( α Ari, α Arietis ) is the Bayer designation for the brightest star in the northern zodiacal constellation of Aries.

* Alpha blockers ( technically α < sub > 1 </ sub >- adrenergic receptor antagonists ) are the most common choice for initial therapy in the USA and Europe.

Alpha Herculis ( α Her, α Herculis ) is a multiple star system in the constellation Hercules.

The impact rate on 1958 Alpha for 153 events was Af for particles of mass greater than Af ( Dubin, 1960 ) ; ;

; Alpha and beta testing

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.

; Open Genera: for DEC Alpha.

It is available on Linux and BSD for Intel x86 ; Linux for Alpha ; Mac OS X for Intel x86 and PowerPC ; and Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX on their native platforms.

Gamers that year had a choice between a new game with the Civilization name but no involvement of Sid Meier ; and a " space "- themed civilization game without the name but clearly designed by the same team ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ).

Lambda, Mu, Xi, Nu, Gamma, and Alpha Ceti represented its head ; Omicron, Zeta, and Chi Ceti represented its body ; Eta Eri, Tau Cet, and Upsilon Cet marked its legs and feel ; and Theta, Eta, and Beta Ceti delineated its tail.

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.

Implementations also exist for the Interdata 8 / 32, PDP-11, VAX, Alpha platforms and HP Integrity servers ; for the Honeywell, and for the Computer Technology Limited ( CTL, later ITL ) Modular-1 ; as well as for SPARC running Solaris and Intel running Linux.

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The school is home to six different fraternities: Kappa Alpha Order, Alpha Phi Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha, Lambda Chi Alpha, and Kappa Sigma ; as well as five sororities: Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, Chi Omega, and Delta Sigma Theta.

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.

Note that the mass threshold is four times that of 1958 Alpha and that the flux is one fifth as large.

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.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

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

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.

Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle ( two protons and two neutrons ) and thereby transforms ( or ' decays ') into an atom with a mass number 4 less and atomic number 2 less.

Alpha decay is by far the most common form of cluster decay where the parent atom ejects a defined daughter collection of nucleons, leaving another defined product behind ( in nuclear fission, a number of different pairs of daughters of approximately equal size are formed ).

Alpha decay is the most likely cluster decay because of the combined extremely high binding energy and relatively small mass of the helium-4 product nucleus ( the alpha particle ).

Alpha decay, like other cluster decays, is fundamentally a quantum tunneling process.

Alpha particles have a typical kinetic energy of 5 MeV ( that is, ≈ 0. 13 % of their total energy, i. e. 110 TJ / kg ) and a speed of 15, 000 km / s.

Alpha decay is much more easily shielded against than other forms of radioactive decay.

Alpha blending is a convex combination of two colors allowing for transparency effects in computer graphics.

Alpha blending is used in a variety of applications.

With a visual magnitude of − 0. 04, it is the fourth brightest star in the night sky, after − 1. 46 magnitude Sirius, − 0. 86 magnitude Canopus, and − 0. 27 magnitude Alpha Centauri.

However, Alpha Centauri is a bright binary star, whose unresolved components to the naked eye are both fainter than Arcturus.

: Alpha testing takes place at developers ' sites, and involves testing of the operational system by internal staff, before it is released to external customers.