Alpha (disambiguation)

Alpha (Α or α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:

Letters

Latin alpha (ɑ), a letter of the Latin alphabet
ɑ, a glyph in the International Phonetic Alphabet
ɑ, a vowel in the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
Alfa, the first letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet

Art and entertainment

Books and comics

Alpha (Lombard), a Franco-Belgian comics series
The Alphas, a young-adult novel series by Lisi Harrison
Alpha 1 through Alpha 9, anthologies edited by Robert Silverberg

Film and TV

Alpha (2018 film), an American prehistoric adventure film
Alpha (2019 film), a Bangladeshi film
Alpha Alpha, German science fantasy series
Alphas, an American science fiction TV series 2011–2012
"Alpha" (The X-Files), a sixth-season episode of The X-Files
Alpha and Omega (radio plays)
Alpha, a Greek television channel
Alpha, an upcoming installment in the YRF Spy Universe

Fictional characters and places

Alpha (DC Comics), a character from DC Comics
Alpha (Marvel Comics), a character from Marvel Comics
Alpha (The Walking Dead), an antagonist from the Walking Dead comic and TV series
Alpha 4 (Power Rangers), Alpha 5 (Power Rangers), Alpha 6 (Power Rangers), or Alpha 7 (Power Rangers), characters in the Power Rangers universe
Alpha the Ultimate Mutant, a character in Marvel Comics
Moonbase Alpha (Space: 1999), the primary setting for the television series Space: 1999
Alpha, a wolf character in the animated film Storks
Alpha, the lead dog from the 2009 animated film Up
Alpha Trion, an autobot character in The Transformers
Alpha, a fictional computer in Mike Walker's radio play Alpha
Alpha Lexa, a character from Ryan's World
Alpha, the main antagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed

Gaming

Alpha (Magic: The Gathering), a card set
Alpha (video game), released in 1986

Internet properties

Airlock Alpha, a science fiction website primarily dedicated to Star Trek

Music

Alpha, a French early music label record label, now part of Outhere
Alpha chord, in the octatonic scale
Alpha (band), a British electronic music group
Alpha (Kazakh band), a Kazakh Q-pop music group

Albums

Alpha (Aitana album) (2023)
Alpha (Alice Nine album) (2007)
Alpha (Asia album) (1983)
Alpha (Charlotte Day Wilson album) (2021)
Alpha (CL album) (2021)
Alpha (Jelena Karleuša album) (2023)
Alpha (Selena album) (1986)
Alpha (Sevendust album) (2007)
Alpha (Shenseea album) (2022)
Alpha (War of Ages album) (2017)

Songs

"Alpha" (song), a 2014 song by Kollegah
"Alpha", a track on the 1976 album Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis
"Alpha", a song by C418 from the 2013 soundtrack Minecraft – Volume Beta

Business

Alpha Bank, a Greek bank, or their stock symbol ALPHA
Alpha Books, an imprint of Penguin Group
Alpha Industries, an American clothing company
Alpha Media, an American radio broadcasting company
Alpha TV, a Greek terrestrial channel
Alpha Video, an American entertainment company
Alpha, a streaming service operated by Legendary Entertainment from 2016 to 2019
Alpha (Australian magazine), an Australian men's sport magazine
Alpha, an investor magazine, later incorporated into Absolute Return + Alpha

People

Alpha (given name), a list of people with the name
Elizabeth Alpha-Lavalie (1947–2013), Sierra Leonian politician
Jenny Alpha (1910–2010), Martinique-born French actress and singer
Alpha Lee (1994–), professor at the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics

Places

United States of America

Alpha, California, former settlement
Alpha, Illinois, a village
Alpha, Iowa, an unincorporated community
Alpha, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
Alpha, Maryland, an unincorporated community
Alpha, Michigan, a village
Alpha, Minnesota, a city
Alpha, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Alpha, New Jersey, a borough
Alpha, Ohio, a neighborhood of the city of Beavercreek
Alpha, Oregon, an unincorporated community
Alpha (Morristown, Tennessee), a neighborhood
Alpha, Texas, an unincorporated freedman's town
Alpha, Virginia, an unincorporated community
Alpha, Washington, an unincorporated community
Alpha, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Alpha Ridge, Alaska, a mountain ridge

Elsewhere

Alpha, Queensland, a town in Australia
Alpha Ridge, an undersea ridge in the Arctic Ocean

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology

Trinchesia alpha, a type of sea slug

Computing

Alpha (programming language), an early database language
Alpha compositing, an image processing technique
Alpha phase of a software release life cycle
AlphaServer, DEC now HP machine successor to the VAX
AlphaStation, DEC now HP workstation successor to the VAX
DEC Alpha, an instruction set architecture developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Wolfram Alpha, a computational knowledge engine

Mathematics and statistics

Alpha (finance), a measurement of active return on an investment
Cronbach's alpha, a statistical measure of reliability
Angular eccentricity (conventional symbol "α")
Navigational azimuth (symbol "α")
One of the Feigenbaum constants describing a bifurcation diagram, in mathematics (symbol "α")
The probability of a type I error in statistics (symbol "α")
The significance level of a statistical test (symbol "α")
The inverse Ackermann function
α, sometimes used as a placeholder for ordinal numbers

Science

Alpha (ethology) (also "alpha male" and "alpha female"), the highest ranking individuals in a community of social animals
ALPHA, a particle physics experiment at CERN
ALPHA Collaboration, (Antihydrogen Laser PHysics Apparatus), a team of scientists
Alpha particle, form of particle radiation
Alpha waves, recorded by electroencephalography
Angle of attack in aerodynamics (symbol "α")
Angular acceleration in physics (symbol "α")
Coefficient of thermal expansion in thermodynamics (symbol "α")
Fine-structure constant in physics (symbol "α")
Thermal diffusivity in thermodynamics (symbol "α")
Common-base current gain of a transistor in electronics (symbol "α")
α, the isotope fractionation factor between two substances in geochemistry
Alpha, the brightest star in a constellation according to the Bayer designation
α receptors, a type of Adrenergic receptor
SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant, one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
A class of Immunoglobulin heavy chains that defines IgA type antibodies
Alpha helixes, which are a type of secondary protein structures

Technology

Alpha (navigation), a Russian radio navigation system
Minolta Alpha, the Japanese name for a series of SLR cameras known as Maxxum or Dynax elsewhere
Sony α or Sony Alpha, a digital SLR series by Sony, direct successor to the Minolta Alpha series
Samsung Galaxy Alpha, 2014 Android smartphone by Samsung

Transportation

GM Alpha platform, the underpinning of various GM vehicles
Alpha (sternwheeler), a 19th-century river vessel
Advance Alpha, a Swiss paraglider design
Alpha 2000, a light aircraft built in New Zealand
Firefly Alpha, an orbital rocket
Kohler Alpha, an American glider
Pipistrel Alpha Trainer, a Slovenian light-sport aircraft

Tropical and subtropical cyclones

Subtropical Storm Alpha (1972), first storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season
Tropical Storm Alpha (2005), twenty-third storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Subtropical Storm Alpha (2020), twenty-second storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season

Other uses

ALPHA (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
Generation Alpha, the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z
Alpha course, an introductory course in Christianity
Alpha Group, a Russian counterterrorism unit
Alpha Secondary School, a high school in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Alpha Boys School, a school in Kingston, Jamaica
Alpha, or Service "A", one of the uniforms of the United States Marine Corps

Letters

Art and entertainment

Books and comics

Film and TV

Fictional characters and places

Gaming

Internet properties

Music

Albums

Songs

Business

People

Places

United States of America

Elsewhere

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology

Computing

Mathematics and statistics

Science

Technology

Transportation

Tropical and subtropical cyclones

Other uses

See also