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Alpha by itself may refer to:

The first letter of the Greek alphabet, Α α, which also has some cultural meanings; see alpha (letter).
The letter A in the NATO phonetic alphabet, which is spelled Alfa for the benefit of native Spanish speakers.
A male in police CB code. ( Delta represents a female)
DEC Alpha, a microprocessor from DEC.
Alpha TV - a Greek terrestrial channel
Alpha TV Gujarati - a Gujarati language channel in India.
Alpha (computer) - a fictional computer in Mike Walker's radio play Alpha.

The International Space Station has sometimes been referred to as 'Alpha'.

Alpha may also be used in:

An adjective to indicate the first or most significant occurrence of something., as in these examples:
- alpha female or male - the individual in the community to whom the others defer. Humans and their nearest species-relatives, the chimpanzees, show deference to the alpha of the community by ritualized gestures such as bowing, allowing the alpha to walk first in a procession, or standing aside when the alpha challenges.
- alpha geek - a slang term based on the above, referring to any person considered pre-eminent amongst geeks, such as Linus Torvalds.
- alpha version or alpha release - the first release of a computer programA computer program (often simply called a program is an example of computer software that prescribes the actions (" computations") that are to be carried out by a computer. Most programs consist of a loadable set of instructions which determines how the c or other product, likely to be very unstable but useful for demonstrating internally and to select customers.
- alpha - typically the brightest star in a constellationOrion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe (but not always the whole year long). A constellation is a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration. In three-dimensional space, most of the stars.
- alpha channel - a transparency information layer to supplement the three RGB color layers to make the RGBA color spaceRGBA color space stands for Red Green Blue Alpha. The alpha channel is the transparency channel, and is unique to this color space. RGBA, like RGB, is an additive color space, so the more of a color you place, the lighter the picture gets. PNG is the best.
- H-alphaIn physics and astronomy, H-alpha also written H&alpha is a particular emission line created by hydrogen. According to the Bohr model of the atom, electrons exist in quantized energy levels surrounding the atom's nucleus. These energy levels are described, an emission line created by Hydrogen atoms.
Alpha particles
Alpha course, a course in Christianity
Alpha squad, a Russian special unit
Alpha, Michigan
Alpha, Minnesota
Alpha, New_Jersey

Alpha is also the symbol used in Atomic Physics for the Fine Structure Constant

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Alpha CentauriAlternative meaning: Alpha Centauri computer game Alpha Centauri is the brightest star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus, and is the third brightest in the entire night sky (although too far south to be visible in most of the northern hemi	Alpha compositingIn computer graphics, alpha compositing is often useful to render image elements in separate passes, and then combine the resulting multiple 2D images into a single, final image in a process called compositing. For example, compositing is used extensively	Alphabet songThe Alphabet song is a popular method for speakers (especially children) to learn the Latin alphabet. It was first copyrighted by C. Bradlee of Boston on February 4, 1834 and titled "The Schoolmaster". It is sung to the popular French melody Ah! Vous dira
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