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alphabetic character

n. the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" [syn: letter, letter of the alphabet]

Usage examples of "alphabetic character".

The name cannot contain a space or quotation mark, and must begin with an alphabetic character to avoid ambiguity with numbered access lists.

We might suppose that, say, a red bead followed by a blue bead correlates with one alphabetic character.