Aleph
Encyclopedia
- AlephAleph* Aleph or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite, Arabic alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet-People:*Aleph , an Italo disco artist and alias of Dave Rodgers...
or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite, Arabic alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet
People
- Aleph (musician)Aleph (musician)Aleph is a 1980s Italo disco band, featuring the vocals of Dave Rodgers. The other members of the group were Donato Bellini and Marco Manzi. They achieved a fair amount of success with the single "Fly To Me" in 1985, which reached the Top Ten in several countries. They released two LPs, "Black Out"...
, an Italo disco artist and alias of Dave Rodgers - Aleph, a pseudonym of Noam ElkiesNoam ElkiesNoam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the youngest ever to do so...
Philology
- Aleph, a shorthand designation for Codex SinaiticusCodex SinaiticusCodex Sinaiticus is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment. Current scholarship considers the Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the best Greek texts of...
, a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible
Science
- Aleph numberAleph numberIn set theory, a discipline within mathematics, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality of infinite sets. They are named after the symbol used to denote them, the Hebrew letter aleph...
or cardinality, a measurement of mathematical sets - Aleph (inductive logic programming), an advanced system for inductive logic programmingInductive logic programmingInductive logic programming is a subfield of machine learning which uses logic programming as a uniform representation for examples, background knowledge and hypotheses...
- ALEPH experiment (Apparatus for LEP Physics at CERN), ALEPH detector or ALEPH experiment, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN
- Alef (programming language)Alef (programming language)The Alef programming language was designed as part of the Plan 9 operating system by Phil Winterbottom of Bell Labs.In a February 2000 slideshow, Rob Pike noted: "…although Alef was a fruitful language, it proved too difficult to maintain a variant language across multiple architectures, so we took...
, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9 - Aleph kernelAleph kernelAleph was an operating system kernel developed at the University of Rochester as part of their RIG project in 1975. Aleph used inter-process communications to move data between programs and the kernel, so applications could transparently access resources on any machine on the local area network...
, an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of the Mach kernel
Literature
- Aleph, a novel by Brazilian author Paulo CoelhoPaulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.-Biography:Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical,...
- The Aleph (short story collection), a short story collection by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
- "The Aleph (short story)", a story contained in the collection
- Aleph, a character in the Warren Ellis comic series Global FrequencyGlobal FrequencyGlobal Frequency is an American comic book limited series published by Wildstorm Productions, created and written by Warren Ellis.It is a science fiction series set in the present day, consisting of single-issue, standalone stories. The series of twelve issues was published between October 2002 and...
- Aleph, a super high capacity storage device, is a plot element in the cyberpunk novel Mona Lisa OverdriveMona Lisa OverdriveMona Lisa Overdrive is a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and the final novel of the Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero. It takes place eight years after the events of Count Zero and is set, as were its predecessors, in The Sprawl...
by William Gibson - Aleph, a system constructed at Athena Station in the cyberpunk novel Halo by Tom MaddoxTom MaddoxTom Maddox is an American science fiction writer, known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement.His first novel was Halo , published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story Snake Eyes appeared in the 1986 collection Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling.He is perhaps best known as a friend and...
Music
- The Aleph, a song by Destroy the Runner on the album Saints
- Aleph at Hallucinatory MountainAleph at Hallucinatory MountainAleph at Hallucinatory Mountain is a studio album by British experimental band Current 93, released in May 2009 on Coptic Cat Records.After collaborating with Om on a split EP, there is a notably heavy sound on this record, citing doom metal and stoner rock as an influence...
, an album by Current 93
Drama
- Aleph Glyph, a flaming Hebrew letter, is the representation of God in Tony Kushner's play Angels in AmericaAngels in AmericaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries and an opera by Peter Eötvös.-Characters:...
Popular culture
- Aleph, a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum ShinrikyoAum ShinrikyoAum Shinrikyo was a Japanese new religious movement. The group was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway....
- Aleph One (game engine), an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon
- Mount Aleph, a location in the video game Golden SunGolden SunGolden Sun, released in Japan as , is the first installment in a series of fantasy role-playing video games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo. It was released in November 2001 for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and was followed by a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, in...
Organization
- Aleph InstituteAleph InstituteAleph Institute is a Jewish humanitarian organization for both prisoners and military personnel. Aleph Institute also has sister branch, the European Aleph Institute.- Services :...
, a Jewish humanitarian organization for Jewish members of the US Armed forces and Jewish prison inmates - ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish RenewalJewish RenewalJewish Renewal , is a recent movement in Judaism which endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with mystical, Hasidic, musical and meditative practices...
- Aleph Zadik AlephAleph Zadik AlephThe Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers, founded in 1924 and currently existing as the male wing of BBYO Inc., an independent non-profit organization...
, the men's order of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), an international youth-led high school fraternity for Jewish teens; Aleph may also refer to a member of this group - Aleph is the successor of Aum ShinrikyoAum ShinrikyoAum Shinrikyo was a Japanese new religious movement. The group was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway....
- Nippon Aleph Corporation is the Japanese maker of magnetic and photoelectric sensors, component units, and security devices, such as reed switchReed switchThe reed switch is an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field. It was invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1936 by W. B. Ellwood. It consists of a pair of contacts on ferrous metal reeds in a hermetically sealed glass envelope...
, reed relayReed relayA reed relay is a type of relay that uses an electromagnet to control one or more reed switches. The contacts are of magnetic material and the electromagnet acts directly on them without requiring an armature to move them...
, proximity sensorProximity sensorA proximity sensor is a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact.A proximity sensor often emits an electromagnetic or a beam of electromagnetic radiation , and looks for changes in the field or return signal. The object being sensed is often referred to as...
, level sensorLevel sensorLevel sensors detect the level of substances that flow, including liquids, slurries, granular materials, and powders. Fluids and fluidized solids flow to become essentially level in their containers because of gravity whereas most bulk solids pile at an angle of repose to a peak...
and photoelectric sensorPhotoelectric sensorA photoelectric sensor, or photoeye, is a device used to detect the distance, absence, or presence of an object by using a light transmitter, often infrared, and a photoelectric receiver. They are used extensively in industrial manufacturing. There are three different functional types: opposed ,...
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