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A placename.

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name

  1. A placename. A ghost town in California, United States (USA).

  2. A placename. A village in Illinois, United States.

  3. A placename. A village in Michigan, United States.

  4. A placename. A city and village in Minnesota, United States.

  5. A placename. A borough of New Jersey, United States.

  6. A placename. A town in Queensland, Australia.

  7. Former name of the International Space Station.

  8. A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004.

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of alpha.

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  2. A member of Generation Alpha.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.