Aleph
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Aleph or alef has several meanings:
- Aleph (letter) or Alef, the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet
- Aleph (Hebrew), the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- Aleph or Alif (Arabic), the first letter of the Arabic alphabet
- Aleph, first letter of the Farsi (or Persian) alphabet
- 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 (<math>\aleph_0</math>), the cardinality of countable infinite sets
- aleph one (<math>\aleph_1</math>), 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 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
In popular culture:
- Aleph (book), a short story by author Georg Brandes
- Aleph (Buddhist group), a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo
- Aleph One (computer game), an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon
- "The Aleph", a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
- Aleph kernel was an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of Mach
- Mount Aleph, an important location from the video game Golden Sun
- Members of the Aleph Zadik Aleph