What is "alphanumeric"

Usage examples of "alphanumeric".

The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.

Another man had climbed on to the bus roof and was changing the alphanumeric indicator, which was the easiest way police aircraft could spot the bus on the road.

Then a series of alphanumeric characters appeared, shimmering a bit before going still.

There were several alphanumeric sequences on a yellow sticky note, and she tried the longest.

Ryan said, and grabbed it from Krysty to smash the pressurized lamp on top of a sealed wooden crate carrying the alphanumeric sequence for thermite grens.

I rather think some of those represent letters of the alphabet to give the system alphanumeric capability.

I was looking at an alphanumeric character string with a maximum capacity of eighty characters, and the blue trucks represent the spaces between words.

Sergeant Charlie Bass stood in the center of the comm shack looking at all the displays, from time to time leaning forward to read a changing alphanumeric data display.

The Vulcan scanned the displayed material briefly, then interpreted the alphanumerics for the officers of the bridge.

It showed the inbound Beechcraft, marked as XXI on the alphanumeric display, one of many contacts, most of which were clearly marked as airliners, and had been high over the shoot-down.

Indicators flickered, changing an alphanumeric display that Maia couldn't read because the bottom half had gone dead.

Lines of alphanumeric code scrolled down the screen, displaying the routine systems-checks and updates that, as second officer, I was supposed to be monitoring at all times, even when I was off-duty and dead to the world.

Blue alphanumerics winked the time, low in her left peripheral field.