• An alpha privative or, rarely, privative a (from Latin alpha prīvātīvum, from Ancient Greek α στερητικόν) is the prefix a- or an- (before vowels) that...
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  • "country" Doric, Aeolic φᾱ́μᾱ phā́mā – Attic, Ionic φήμη phḗmē, "report" Privative a is the Ancient Greek prefix ἀ- or ἀν- a-, an-, added to words to negate...
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  • alpha privative, from Ancient Greek ἀ-, ἀν-, from Proto-Hellenic *ə-; e.g. apathetic, abiogenesis. These all stem from a PIE syllabic nasal privative...
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    Generation Alpha (often shortened to Gen Alpha) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z. While researchers and popular media generally identify...
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    The etymology of "acoel" is from the Ancient Greek words ἀ (a), the alpha privative, expressing negation or absence, and κοιλία (koilía), meaning "cavity"...
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  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908...
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  • popular etymology that saw in the word Greek bythos ("depth") with an alpha privative to mean "without depth" or "bottomless"; Liddell and Scott, A Greek–English...
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    stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the final version, or "gold", is released to the public. Pre-alpha refers to the early...
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    word descended from *n̥-mn̥gʷ-yō-nós 'manless, without husbands' (alpha privative combined with a derivation from *man- cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic...
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  • etymological significance in proper names: i.e., he derived Ἄβιοι from alpha-privative plus βία ("without violence"), a suitable name for those he calls in...
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    "asphalt/bitumen/pitch", which perhaps derives from ἀ-, "not, without", i.e. the alpha privative, and σφάλλειν (sphallein), "to cause to fall, baffle, (in passive)...
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    David Bonderman (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    overvalue assets held by the Infinity Q Diversified Alpha mutual fund and the Infinity Q Volatility Alpha private fund. According to the complaint, Velissaris...
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    opposite of isogamy) comes from the ancient Greek negative prefix a(n)- (alpha privative), the Greek adjective isos (meaning equal) and the Greek verb gameo...
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    The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet is a light attack jet and advanced jet trainer co-manufactured by Dassault Aviation of France and Dornier Flugzeugwerke...
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    Alpha Bank is a private Greek bank. Its founder was John Kostopoulos Alpha Bank's Network in Greece has 273 branches and 783 ATMs. The Group operates in...
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  • alternstive or initiative. ⟨a⟩ as the unstressed a- prefix, called alpha privative, is also the schwa or [a] before stems that begin with consonants,...
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  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social...
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    term "acoelomorph" derives from the Ancient Greek words ἀ (a), the alpha privative, expressing negation or absence, κοιλία (koilía), meaning "cavity"...
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    Pallini. Alpha TV is owned by Alpha Satellite Television S.A. In Cyprus, private broadcaster Sigma TV used to broadcast a number of Alpha's programs....
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  • Alpha Star Aviation Services (ألفا ستار لخدمات الطيران, Alfa Star Likhadamat Altayaran) is a private charter airline based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operating...
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    strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, while a-hiṃsā (prefixed with the alpha privative), its opposite, is non-harming or nonviolence. Reverence for ahimsa...
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  • Alpha Protocol is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Sega. The player assumes control of agent Michael...
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    Alpha Chi Alpha (ΑΧΑ) is a fraternity at the American Ivy League university of Dartmouth College. Alpha Chi Alpha is a member of Dartmouth's Greek system...
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  • sense of being strongly noncommutative. The idea of anabelian (an alpha privative an- before abelian), first introduced in Letter to Faltings (June 27...
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  • originate with the Greek term ápeiron, commonly held to be formed from a (alpha privative, "without") and péras ("determination", "limit"), and thus translated...
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    Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center...
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  • AlphaSights is an information services company, specializing in connecting clients with experts, sometimes referred to as an expert network. The company's...
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    AlphaBay was a darknet market operating at different times between September 2014 and February 2023. At times, it was both an onion service on the Tor...
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  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization...
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    The Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two...
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