Aleph
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Aleph or alef has several meanings:
- Aleph (letter) or Alef, the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet
- Aleph (Hebrew), the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- Aleph or Alif (Arabic), the first letter of the Arabic alphabet
- Aleph or Alif (Farsi), the first letter of the Farsi (or Persian) alphabet
- Aleph, a shorthand designation for Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible
- Aleph number or cardinality, a measurement of mathematical sets
- * aleph null ([\aleph_0]), the cardinality of countable infinite sets
- * aleph one ([\aleph_1]), the cardinality of certain uncountably infinite sets (if the continuum hypothesis is true, then the set of all real numbers has this cardinality).
- Aleph (inductive logic programming), an advanced system for inductive logic programming
- Aleph (TeX), a stable version of Omega for multilingual typesetting
- ALEPH detector or ALEPH experiment, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN
- Alef programming language, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9
- Aleph kernel 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 from Ex Libris LTD used to manage library operations
- Aleph (book), a short story by author Georg Brandes
- "The Aleph", a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
- Aleph (Buddhist group), a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo
- Aleph Zadik Aleph, 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), an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon
- Mount Aleph, an important location in the video game Golden Sun
- Alef, one of the main protagonists in the SEGA video game Shining Force
- Aleph, the real name of the protagonist in the video game Shin Megami Tensei II
- Aleph, a character in the comic book series Global Frequency, written by Warren Ellis
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