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• Aleph
  Aleph
  
  * Aleph or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet....
   or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite
  Proto-Canaanite alphabet
  
  The Proto-Canaanite alphabet is a consonantal alphabet of twenty-two Acrophony glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age , by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 BC, after which it is called Phoenician alphabet....
  , Arabic alphabet
  Arabic alphabet
  
  The Arabic alphabet is the writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic language, Persian language, and Urdu language....
  , Phoenician alphabet
  Phoenician alphabet
  
  The Phoenician alphabet is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, by convention taken to originate around 1050 BC. It was used for the writing of Phoenician language, a Northern Semitic languages language, used by the civilization of Phoenicia....
  , Hebrew alphabet
  Hebrew alphabet
  
  The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. Five of these letters have a different form when appearing as the last letter in a word....
  , Syriac alphabet
  Syriac alphabet
  
  The Syriac alphabet is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language from around the 2nd century BC. It is one of the Semitic languages abjads directly descending from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and shares similarities with the Phoenician alphabet, Aramaic alphabet, and Hebrew alphabet alphabets....
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Named after the letter

People

• Aleph (musician)
  Aleph (musician)
  
  Aleph is a 1980s Italo disco band, featuring the vocals of Dave Rodgers.They achieved a fair amount of success with the single "Fly To Me" in 1985, which reached the Top Ten in several countries....
  , an Italo disco
  Italo disco
  
  Italo-Disco is a very broad term, encompassing much of the disco music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of electronic dance music....
   artist and alias of Dave Rodgers
  Dave Rodgers
  
  Dave Rodgers is an Italian people songwriter, composer, and producer.Born in Mantua, he started production with the band Aleph . Since then, he has collaborated with artists from around the world and has produced several multi-platinum albums....
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• Aleph, a pseudonym of Noam Elkies
  Noam Elkies
  
  Noam D. Elkies is an American mathematician.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad....
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Philology

• Aleph, a shorthand designation for Codex Sinaiticus
  Codex Sinaiticus
  
  Codex Sinaiticus ]]The story of how von Tischendorf found the manuscript, which contained most of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament, has all the interest of a romance....
  , a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible
  Bible
  
  The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
  

Science

• Aleph number
  Aleph number
  
  In the branch of mathematics known as set theory, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality of infinite sets....
   or cardinality, a measurement of mathematical sets
• aleph null , the cardinality of countable infinite sets
• aleph one , the cardinality of certain uncountably infinite sets (if the continuum hypothesis
  Continuum hypothesis
  
  In mathematics, the continuum hypothesis is a hypothesis, advanced by Georg Cantor, about the possible sizes of infinite Set . Cantor introduced the concept of cardinal number to compare the sizes of infinite sets, and he gave two proofs that the cardinality of the set of integers is strictly smaller than that of the set of real numbers....
   is true, then the set of all real numbers has this cardinality).
• Aleph (inductive logic programming), an advanced system for inductive logic programming
  Inductive logic programming
  
  Inductive logic programming is a subfield of machine learning which uses logic programming as a uniform representation for examples, background knowledge and hypotheses....
  
• ALEPH (Apparatus for LEP Physics at CERN), ALEPH detector or ALEPH experiment, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider
  Large Electron-Positron Collider
  
  The Large Electron-Positron Collider was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed.It was built at CERN, a multi-national center for research in nuclear and particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland....
   (LEP) at CERN
• Alef programming language, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9
• Aleph kernel
  Aleph kernel
  
  Aleph was an operating system kernel developed at the University of Rochester as part of their Rochester Intelligent Gateway project in 1975. Aleph used inter-process communications to move data between programs and the kernel, so applications could transparently access resources on any machine on the local area network ....
   was an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of the Mach kernel
• Aleph, an integrated library system
  Integrated library system
  
  An integrated library system , also known as a library management system , is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed....
   from Ex Libris Ltd. used to manage library operations

Literature

• The Aleph (short story collection), a short story collection which includes a story The Aleph (short story) by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
  Jorge Luis Borges
  
  Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentina writer born in Buenos Aires. He was brought up bilingual in Spanish and English. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, then traveled around Spain....
  
• Aleph, a character in the Warren Ellis
  Warren Ellis
  
  Warren Ellis is a United Kingdom author of comics, novels, and television, well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and his writing, which covers Extropianism and Transhumanism themes ....
   comic series Global Frequency
  Global Frequency
  
  Global Frequency is an American comic book published by Wildstorm, created and written by Warren Ellis. It is a science fiction series set in the present day, consisting of single-issue, standalone stories....
  
• Aleph, a super high capacity storage device, is a plot element in the cyberpunk
  Cyberpunk
  
  Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low-life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk subculture and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coup...
   novel Mona Lisa Overdrive
  Mona Lisa Overdrive
  
  Mona Lisa Overdrive is a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and the final novel of the Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero....
   by William Gibson
  William Gibson
  
  William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:*William Gibson , English Catholic martyr...
  

Popular culture

• Aleph, a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo
  Aum Shinrikyo
  
  Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese Shinshukyo. The group was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in the Tokyo Subway....
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• Aleph Zadik Aleph
  Aleph Zadik Aleph
  
  The International Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers, founded in 1924 and currently existing as the male wing of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization , an independent non-profit organization....
  , the men's order of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), an international youth-led high school fraternity for Jewish teens. Aleph can also refer to a member of this group.
• Aleph One (computer game)
  Aleph One (computer game)
  
  Aleph One is a free software and open source software first-person shooter engine based on the source code of Bungie Studios' Marathon 2: Durandal....
  , an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon.
• ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
  Jewish Renewal
  
  Jewish Renewal is a Jewish denominations in Judaism which endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with Mysticism, Hasidic Judaism, musical and Meditation practices....
  

Pharmacology

• Aleph (psychedelic)
  Aleph (psychedelic)
  
  Aleph, or 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylthioamphetamine, is a psychedelic Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants and a substituted amphetamine of the phenethylamine class of compounds, which can be used as an entheogen....
  , a psychoactive drug.

News Agency

• Alef (News Agency), an Iranian News Agency related to Ahmad Tavakkoli
  Ahmad Tavakkoli
  
  Ahmad Tavakkoli is a Conservatism representative of Tehran in the Iranian Majlis of Iran, and the Director of Strategic Majlis Research Center....