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Definition of "alphanumeric" [alphanumeric]

  • Consisting of both letters and numbers. (adjective)
  • Consisting of or using letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and mathematical and other conventional symbols: an alphanumeric code. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "alphanumeric" in a sentence
  • ""Unearthed" allegedly focuses on a young girl who is pronounced dead, and when she's taken off of life support, she "wakes up screaming in alphanumeric code.""
  • "The Internet is going to do a lot more to change performance-based poetry, include the necessarily performance - or video-based poets of American Sign Language, than to change the kind of poems I write and (mostly) read, shortish works in alphanumeric script in Western languages, created for silent reading on the page."
  • "The unique identifier, called a alphanumeric characters, such as, for example, uuid: 4CD7E4BC-648B-426D-9936-443EAAC8AI."
Words like "alphanumeric"
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