The phrase "alphabetic symbol" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a character or letter in an alphabet, particularly in discussions about language, linguistics, or typography.
Example: "In the English language, the letter 'A' is an alphabetic symbol that represents a vowel sound."
Alternatives: "letter" or "character".
In this manner, alphabetic symbols of natural-language writing systems can be represented digitally as combinations of zeros (no pulse) and ones (pulse).
In rereading "Underworld," he said that he was sometimes surprised — by the space given to the Bronx storylines ("These are words and phrases and curses meant to be delivered orally … sounds and actions, not alphabetic symbols set down on a page"), by the power of certain turns of phrase, and by the process of rediscovering his own work seventeen years after its publication.
The alphabetic width counts the total number of alphabetic symbols in the regular expression, taking into account multiplicity.
I'm still somewhat old-school in terms of my comfort level with talking at and to electronics and computerized devices, so I'll probably mostly be sticking to the Old Ways of kludging about on rows of squares printed with alphabetic symbols, but I can still see this being quite useful on occasion.
That said, I'd welcome a study that examined the age at which children in other countries are first introduced to their language's alphabetic symbols and phonemes.
Therefore, in the present study, we also adapted a visual search task for alphabetic symbols that has been used by Beck & Lavie [56] that consists in searching for a target letter (i.e. X or Z) presented together with another five non-targets and while ignoring centrally another presented distracter (i.e., either an X, Z, or L).
As I indicated in [ 4], S is a linear transformation of a special case (4 alphabetic symbols) of H2 (X), the Gini-Simpson index.
However, when children in Taiwan enter elementary school, they are compulsorily taught a system of alphabetic symbols called Zhu-Yin (including 37 symbols) to learn the pronunciation of Chinese characters [ 21].
Specially, if α = 2, eq. (6) reads (8) H 2 (X ) = (1 − ∑ x ∈ X [ p (x ) ] 2 ) = 1 − S = 1 − ∑ n = 1 4 p n 2 where the last two equal signs are valid only for a discrete uniform distribution of four alphabetic symbols.
In the literature, the parthood relation is often represented by non-alphabetic symbols supporting infix notation, such as '≤' or '<' (the notation used in Leonard and Goodman 1940 and favored by Simons 1987) and the like.
