Aleph (disambiguation)

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• Aleph or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite, Arabic alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet.

Named after the letter:

In philology:

• Aleph, a shorthand designation for Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible

In science:

• Aleph number or cardinality, a measurement of mathematical sets
  • aleph null (), the cardinality of countable infinite sets
  • aleph one (), the cardinality of certain uncountably infinite sets (if the continuum hypothesis is true, then the set of all real numbers has this cardinality).
• Aleph (inductive logic programming), an advanced system for inductive logic programming
• ALEPH (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, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9
• Aleph kernel was an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of the Mach kernel
• Aleph, an integrated library system from Ex Libris Ltd. used to manage library operations

In literature:

• The Aleph (short story collection), a short story collection which includes a story The Aleph (short story) by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
• Aleph, a character in the Warren Ellis comic Series Global Frequency
• Aleph, a super high capacity storage device, is a plot element in the cyberpunk novel Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

In popular culture:

• Aleph, a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo.
• Aleph Zadik Aleph, the men's order of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), an international youth-led high school fraternity for Jewish teens. Aleph can also refer to a member of this group.
• Aleph One (computer game), an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon.
• ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
• Aleph (musician), an Italo disco artist and alias of Dave Rodgers.

In pharmacology:

• Aleph, a psychoactive drug.