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Alphabetics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The science of representing spoken sounds by letters. dated, uncountable

    "As the English race has sinned most in the matter of bad spelling and an incomplete alphabet, so it ought to take the lead in restoring the science of alphabetics to a form which shall be perfectly and completely phonographic."

  2. 2
    The study of the alphabet, the sounds associated with each letter, and the construction of written words. uncountable

    "Almost all of the studies with results related to alphabetics were conducted with adult non-readers or beginning readers and none compared the effects of alphabetics instruction across reading levels."

  3. 3
    plural of alphabetic form-of, plural, uncountable

Etymology

From alphabet + -ics.

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