The phrase "alphabetic designations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to labels or identifiers that consist of letters of the alphabet, often in contexts like categorization or classification.
Example: "In the report, we will use alphabetic designations to categorize the different sections for easier reference."
Alternatives: "letter designations" or "alphabetic labels".
This fits into the currently accepted classification of adenovirus "genome types," in which substrains of adenoviruses are designated by lower case alphabetic designations in addition to their primary designation, e.g., HAdV-7a, b, c.., if their restriction enzyme digestion patterns differ from the reference prototype genome, "HAdV-7p".
Note: Chemical structures referred to in the text are illustrated in Appendix 1. Structures are identified by parenthetical Roman Numerals, with specific derivatives identified where appropriate by a lower case alphabetic designation.
To simplify discussion, each major species (as inferred from the existence of a Raman band exhibiting independent behavior as a function of pH and ΣS/ΣAs) has been assigned an alphabetic designation as enumerated in the caption to Fig. 13.
Bovine TRAV/TRDV subgroups have been named according to the orthologous human subgroups where appropriate and an alphabetic designation where this was not possible.
Each haplotype is named as described above with a common alphabetic designation (A to V) for the family (cluster) within which individual haplotypes are more similar than 90%% of the haplotypes of the entire population as defined by MPPD in the NJ topology.
Android M (following Google's alphabetic codename designations for major releases) will bring the OS to version 6.0, on the heels of Lollipop last year.
We suggest naming these tubulins ζ-tubulins to not interrupt the alphabetic naming.
Members in the V gene subgroups have been given alphabetic rather than numeric designations, similar to systems employed in previous work [ 8, 14], although there is no correspondence between the TRDV1 nomenclature employed here and in [ 14].
For more alphabetic fun, check out artist and illustrator Stephen Wildish's "Architecture Alphabet" here.
She would not even grant him alphabetic preëminence.
Today almost all languages except Chinese and Japanese are alphabetic.
