alphanumeric
An alphanumeric character.
Adjective
- 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.
- 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, page 36
Origin
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 *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique French numériquebor. English numeric English alphanumeric From alpha- + numeric.
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Noun
- An alphanumeric character.
- Finally, alphanumerics are digits, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or accented letters […] - 2014, Pierre M. Nugues, Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application, Springer,...