alphabetic order
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Alphabetic order is the arrangement of words or items according to the sequence of letters in an alphabet—A before B, B before C, and so on.
When first letters match, second letters determine order; when those match, third letters, and so forth: The names were listed in alphabetic order.
Also called alphabetical order.
- orderingPlacing in sequence
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- Roman lettersWestern phonetic writing system
- graphemeMinimal written symbol unit
- sortingArranging into sequence
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- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- alphabetsLatin, vowels, Hebrew script, uppercase, Arabic script
- writing historycuneiform, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, scripts, writing systems
ordering principle
alphabetic orderrandom order
Unpredictable arrangement
chronological order · hierarchical order · logical order · custom order