Aleph
Aleph or alef has several meanings:
- Aleph or Alef (א) the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet; ʾalif is the equivalent letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Alef, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9;
- Alef, one of the main protagonists in SEGA's Shining Force;
- Aleph, a short story by author Georg Brandes;
- Aleph, a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo;
- Aleph, an advanced system for inductive logic programming.
- ALEPH detector or ALEPH experiment, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN;
- aleph number or cardinality, the measurement of mathematical sets?
- aleph null (
), the cardinality of countable infinite sets;
- aleph one (
), the cardinality of certain uncountably infinite sets, possibly including the real numbers?
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- Aleph One, an ongoing project related to the computer game Marathon;
- Aleph programming language;
- The Aleph, a short story by author Jorge Luis Borges.
- Aleph was an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of Mach.
- Members of the Aleph Zadik Aleph are referred to as Alephs.
- There is a Mount Aleph in the video game Golden Sun.