alpha

alpha englannista suomeksi

1. alfa

2. alfa-, johtaja-, johtava

3. alku

0. Substantiivi

1. alfa

alpha englanniksi

1. The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α,  α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.

2. (w): the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).

3. The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix.

(ux)

4. The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for risk.

(cot)

5. (quote-book)

6. (quote-journal)|title=Mastering the Machine|work=The New Yorker|date=2011-07-18|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/07/25/mastering-the-machine|issn=0028-792X|passage=To investment professionals, “alpha” is the return over and above the market return. If in a given year the S. & P. 500 returns fifteen per cent and an equity-fund manager generates a return of twenty per cent, his alpha is five per cent.

7. A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see male).

8. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Faye Flam|title=The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q2ZfAscW27oC&pg=PT89&dq=%22alphas%22|publisher=Avery|year_published=2008|isbn=9781436225786

9. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|editor=Mitzi Szereto|title=The New Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=XI7MR8XZSh8C&pg=PA38&dq=%22alphas%22v=onepage&q=%22alphas%22&f=false|page=38|publisher=Black Lace|isbn=9780352341723

10. {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Martin G. Groder; Pat Webster|title=Winning at Love: The Alpha Male's Guide to Relationship Success|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=E-5HM5BefHAC&pg=PR11&dq=%22an+alpha%22|page=ix|publisher=Bascom Hill Books|isbn=9781935456049

11. (short for) (rfex)

12. The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.

13. (cap).

14. The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the channel.

15. (ellipsis of)

16. The level of a statistical test; the level.

17. In omegaverse fiction, a person of a dominant secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an omega, with males of this type often having canine-like genitalia.

18. {{quote-book|en|year=2013|editor=Anne Jamison|author=Kristina Busse|chapter=Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse|title=Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GBwVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA317&dq=%22some-times+the+alphas+and+omegas+are+rare%22|page=317

19. 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 11:

Sherlock realizes that John, despite being an alpha, sees and loves Sherlock for who he is, "a brilliant, mad, nutter of a man," instead of only wanting him for his reproductive functions, his ability to become pregnant.

20. {{quote-text|en|year=2018|editor=Ashton Spacey|author=Laura Campillo Arnaiz|chapter=When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the ''Hannibal'' Fandom|title=The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction|page=130

21. Designates the first in an of precedence.

22. Exhibiting characteristics of the male/female|female archetype.

23. {{quote-text|en|year=2015|title=Life Is Strange|publisher=Square Enix

24. Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a (l).

25. (l) (gloss)

26. (l)