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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alpha version" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an early version of a software product that is still in development and not yet ready for public release.
Example: "The alpha version of the app is now available for testing, and we welcome feedback from our users."
Alternatives: "pre-release version" or "initial version".
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alpha version
noun
A development status that usually means an early version of a program or application, that is most likely unstable, but is useful to show what the product will do to, usually, a selected group. Sometimes this stage is referred to as a preview version. Sometimes no more features are added after this release, but bug fixes continue. This release comes after a pre-alpha version and before a beta version. As opposed to a beta version an alpha version is usually not feature complete.
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A prototype ring is for sale on Indiegogo for $60£3737) with an "alpha" version of the ring available by a projected date of March 2016, for $150.
The long wait for Wikia Search is over with the alpha version of the service now live.
The alpha version of the browser is currently available for Mac and Windows and is offered in 15 languages at this point, including English, Russian and Turkish.
The alpha version will ship to testers in six months, with first production models shipping to buyers in nine months.
Major music labels are suing filesharing application Aurous for "willful and egregious copyright infringement" just days after its earliest alpha version launched.
So we made the Alpha version of Stroome, got it alpha tested, raised a little money and started work on the beta version.
"Currently the product feels like a alpha version of a Gmail," one user posted to a Yahoo Mail forum.
Feedback from users of the alpha version, released in June, included suggestions for how to improve the framework and many of these have been incorporated into the beta version.
With the launch of the alpha version of BitTorrent Private Chat, users are able to use a similar version of the distributed network that enables fast (and frequently illegal) downloads of large files in order to chat privately and securely.
We wrote the alpha version of the business plan.
IDEA1 is based on the SCNSL library of alpha version.
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