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A, first letter of the alphabet alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing , theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics ). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. ..... Click the link for more information. . A is a usual symbol for a low central vowel, as in father; the English long a (ā) is pronounced as a diphthong of ĕ and y. The corresponding letter of the Greek alphabet is named alpha. Alpha and omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, symbolize the beginning and the end and, in the New Testament, Christ. In musical notation musical notation, symbols used to make a written record of musical sounds. Two different systems of letters were used to write down the instrumental and the vocal music of ancient Greece. In his five textbooks on music theory Boethius (c.A.D. 470–A.D. ..... Click the link for more information. the letter is the symbol of a note in the scale. a, A the first in a series, esp the highest grade or mark, as in an examination a (electricity) (physics) A (electricity) (mechanics) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Historians, whether political, literary, or social, have long used letters as one of their major sources of information, but it is only relatively recently that an interest in the letter as a generic form has developed. The scholarship that does exist on the letter as a form of culture has been dominated by literary analysis of the epistolary novel in the eighteenth century, but this narrow focus has occluded investigation into alternative manifestations and longer trajectories of the letter form. For example, the letter A became the idea of beginning (alpha), an opening, then exuberant new life; the letter O (omega) became the idea of lunar emptiness, void, lunar cycles, then tidal energies; and so forth until I found the matching metaphor for twenty-six letter environments. |
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