alphanumeric
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌæl.fə.n(j)uːˈmɛ.ɹɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
- Hyphenation: al‧pha‧nu‧mer‧ic
Adjective
alphanumeric (not comparable)
- Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.
- 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).
- 2005, Bali, 2000 Solved Problems in Digital Electronics, Tata McGraw-Hill Education (→ISBN), page 36
Derived terms
Translations
consisting of letters and numbers
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Noun
alphanumeric (plural alphanumerics)
- 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 […]
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