alphanumeric

English

Alternative forms

• alphameric
• alphamerical
• alphanumerical

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Semitic *ʔalp-

Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor.

Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha)

Proto-Semitic *bayt-

Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor.

Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos)

Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der.

Classical Latin alphabētumbor.

Middle English alphabete

English alphabet

English alpha-

Proto-Indo-European *nem-

Proto-Italic *nomezos

Latin numerus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -ique

Middle French -ique

French -ique

French numériquebor.

English numeric

English alphanumeric

From alpha- + numeric.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæl.fə.n(j)uːˈmɛ.ɹɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
• Hyphenation: al‧pha‧nu‧mer‧ic

Adjective

alphanumeric (not comparable)

1. Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.
2. (rare, nonstandard) Consisting of these characters plus punctuation and other special characters.
   • 2005, Bali, 2000 Solved Problems in Digital Electronics, Tata McGraw-Hill Education (→ISBN), page 36

     Therefore, we need a special code to represent all alphanumeric data (letters, symbols, and numbers).

Derived terms

• alphanumerical
• alphanumerically
• nonalphanumeric

Translations

consisting of letters and numbers

• Catalan: alfanumèric
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文數 / 文数 (wénshù), 文數字 / 文数字 (wénshùzì) (alphanumeric character)

• Danish: alfanumerisk
• Dutch: alfanumeriek (nl)
• Esperanto: litercifera
• Finnish: aakkosnumeerinen (fi), alfanumeerinen (fi)
• French: alphanumérique (fr)
• Galician: alfanumérico (gl)
• German: alphanumerisch (de), alphanummerisch (de)
• Greek: αλφαριθμητικός (el) m (alfarithmitikós), αλφαριθμικός f (alfarithmikós)
• Hebrew: אַלְפָא נוּמֶרִי m (álfa numéri)
• Indonesian: alfanumerik (id)
• Interlingua: alphanumeric
• Italian: alfanumerico (it)
• Japanese: 英数の (えいすうの, eisū no) (ASCII), 英数字 (えいすうじ, eisūji) (alphanumeric character)
• Macedonian: азбучнобро́јчен (azbučnobrójčen)
• Māori: retawhika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alfanumerisk

  Nynorsk: alfanumerisk

• Polish: alfanumeryczny (pl)
• Portuguese: alfanumérico (pt) m
• Romanian: alfanumeric (ro) m or n, alfanumerică f, alfanumerici m pl
• Russian: бу́квенно-цифрово́й (ru) (búkvenno-cifrovój)
• Spanish: alfanumérico (es)
• Swedish: alfanumerisk (sv)
• Turkish: alfanümerik, abecesayısal (tr), abece-sayısal, abece sayısal

Noun

alphanumeric (plural alphanumerics)

1. An alphanumeric character.
   • 2014, Pierre M. Nugues, Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application, Springer, →ISBN, page 268:

     Finally, alphanumerics are digits, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or accented letters […]

Synonyms

• alnum