The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

For Lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is " alpha ", because it is very plain and simple — the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue — and therefore this is the first sound that children make.

Amino acids having both the amine and carboxylic acid groups attached to the first, or alpha, carbon atom have particular importance in biochemistry.

This reaction was studied for the first time in 2008 by the team at RIKEN, Japan, in order to study the decay properties of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh, which is a decay product in their claimed decay chains of ununtrium .< ref > The decay of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh by the emission of 9. 05-9. 23 MeV alpha particles was further confirmed in 2010.

The element was first made at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 by bombarding curium with alpha particles ( helium-4 ions ).

Her first test put the alpha branching at 0. 6 %, a figure which she later revised to 1 %.

The first carbon atom after the carbon that attaches to the functional group is called the alpha carbon ; the second, beta carbon, the third, gamma carbon, etc.

It is also acrophonically called azbuki from the names of its first two letters in Bulgaria, on the same model as ' alpha ' + ' beta '.

The first historical uses of the Geiger principle were for the detection of alpha and beta particles, and the instrument is still used for this purpose today.

The team at GSI first studied the reaction in 1986 using the method of correlation of genetic alpha decays and identified a single atom of < sup > 264 </ sup > Hs with a cross section of 3. 2 pb.

The team produced < sup > 256 </ sup > Md ( half-life of 87 minutes ) when they bombarded an < sup > 253 </ sup > Es target with alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) in the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory's 60-inch cyclotron (< sup > 256 </ sup > Md was the first isotope of any element to be synthesized one atom at a time ).

Omega ( the last letter of the Greek alphabet ) is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

File: Ernest Rutherford 1908. jpg | Ernest Rutherford ( 1871-1937 ): considered " Father of Nuclear Physics ", showed how the atomic nucleus has a positive charge, first to change one element into another by an artificial nuclear reaction, differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation, awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908

Polonium solutions are first colored in pink by the Po < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions, but then rapidly become yellow because alpha radiation from polonium ionizes the solvent and converts Po < sup > 2 +</ sup > into Po < sup > 4 +</ sup >.

In trying to confirm these results by using carbon-12 instead, they also observed the first alpha decays from < sup > 257 </ sup > Rf.

Rutherford also later analyzed inelastic scattering when he projected alpha particles against hydrogen nuclei ( protons ), and this latter process is not classical Rutherford scattering, although it was first observed by him.

Proline acts as a structural disruptor in the middle of regular secondary structure elements such as alpha helices and beta sheets ; however, proline is commonly found as the first residue of an alpha helix and also in the edge strands of beta sheets.

Its first stages ( sometimes called " alpha taxonomy ") are concerned with finding, describing and naming species of living or fossil organisms.

Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

With this first issue we give you a list of the materials needed to build the basic ( AjA version ) and the expandable ( AjB version ).

It was heard again in Philadelphia in 1927 in the first version of `` Strike Up The Band '' and again abandoned shortly before the entire show was given up.

The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

" The first well-known version of anarcho-capitalism was formulated by Austrian School economist and libertarian Murray Rothbard in the mid-twentieth century, synthesizing elements from the Austrian School of economics, classical liberalism, and nineteenth century American individualist anarchists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker ( rejecting their labor theory of value and the normative implications they derived from it ).

Henry also proposed building a demonstration version of the full engine, with a smaller storage capacity: " perhaps for a first machine ten ( columns ) would do, with fifteen wheels in each ".

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

( Paradoxically, in the modern version it is the rebellious son who has the first name " David ".

* 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1913 .</ ref >

The first major application was the relative version of Serre's theorem showing that the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on a complete variety is finite dimensional ; Grothendieck's theorem shows that the higher direct images of coherent sheaves under a proper map are coherent ; this reduces to Serre's theorem over a one-point space.

Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed " America ", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name .< ref > Rival explanations have been proposed ( see Arciniegas, Germán.

* Canova's Three Graces ( first version ) in the Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg

An early theory, suggested by Swiss theologian Jean LeClerc in the 17th century, posits that the longer Western version was a first draft, while the Alexandrian version represents a more polished revision by the same author.

The Byzantine text-type was used for the 16th century Textus Receptus, the first Greek-language version of the New Testament to be printed by the printing press.

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

It is this latter version, which has some syntax differences from the first as well as support for the Apple II high-resolution graphics modes, that most people mean by the term " Applesoft.

The very first " kit " version of the Aster CT-80 running Newdos / 80.

For the educational market a version of the first model was produced with a new plastic enclosure ( the First Asters had an all-metal enclosure ) that also had an opening on the top in which a cassette recorder could be placed.