Alpha (disambiguation)

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

Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters and places

• Alpha (computer), a fictional computer in Mike Walker's radio play Alpha
• 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), 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 Up
• Alpha Trion, an autobot character in The Transformers

Films

• Alpha (2018 film), a 2018 film starring Kodi Smit-McPhee
• Alpha (2019 film), a 2019 Bangladeshi film

Gaming

• Alpha (Magic: The Gathering), a card set
• Alpha, a sequel of The Death Trap
• Alpha Metroid, a form of the fictional Metroid species introduced in Metroid II: Return of Samus

Literature

• Alpha (Lombard), a Franco-Belgian comics series
• The Alphas, a young-adult novel series by Lisi Harrison
• Alpha 1 through Alpha 9, books by Robert Silverberg
• Alpha (Australian magazine), an Australian men's sport magazine
• Alpha, an investor magazine, later incorporated into Absolute Return + Alpha

Music

• Alpha (band), a British electronic music group
• Alpha, a French early music label record label, now part of Outhere
• Alpha chord, in the octatonic scale
• Alpha (Alice Nine album) (2007)
• Alpha (Asia album) (1983)
• Alpha (Sevendust album) (2007)
• Alpha (War of Ages album) (2017)
• "Alpha" (song), a 2014 song by Kollegah
• Alpha, a 1986 album by Selena
• "Alpha", a track on the 1976 album Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis

Television and radio

• 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)

Businesses

• 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

Language

• 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

Places

United States

• Alpha, California, a ghost town
• 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, Tennessee, an unincorporated community and neighborhood
• Alpha, Texas, an unincorporated freedman's town
• Alpha, Virginia
• 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

Computing

• Alpha (programming language), an early database language
• Alpha compositing, an image processing technique
• Alpha phase in 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
• α, the conventional symbol for angular eccentricity
• α, a symbol for navigational azimuth
• α, a symbol for one of the Feigenbaum constants describing a bifurcation diagram, in mathematics
• α, a symbol representing the probability of a type I error in statistics
• 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
• α, a symbol for the angle of attack in aerodynamics
• α, a symbol for angular acceleration in physics
• α, a symbol for coefficient of thermal expansion in thermodynamics
• α, a symbol for the fine-structure constant in physics
• α, a symbol for thermal diffusivity in thermodynamics
• α, a symbol for common-base current gain of a transistor in electronics
• 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

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

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
• Kohler Alpha, an American glider
• Pipistrel Alpha Trainer, a Slovenian light-sport aircraft

Other uses

• Alpha (name), given name, including a list of people with the name
• ALPHA (psychedelic), psychedelic drug alpha-ethyl-3,4-methylenedioxybenzylamine
• Alpha course, an introductory course in Christianity
• Alpha Group, an elite Russian counterterrorism unit
• Alpha, or Service "A", one of the uniforms of the United States Marine Corps
• Alpha Secondary School, a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• Tropical Storm Alpha, the name of several storms

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Alpha
• All pages with titles containing Alpha
• Alpha and Omega (disambiguation)
• Alpha value (disambiguation)
• Alfa (disambiguation)
• Moonbase Alpha (disambiguation)
• A, the letter
• Space Station Alpha
• Space Complex Alpha