alphabet

n. a set of letters or signs, usually listed in a fixed order, that are used to represent the basic speech sounds of a language in writing. In linguistics, the term is restricted to those writing systems in which the symbols represent individual phonemes rather than syllables. Compare syllabary. —alphabetical adj.

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constructionism

n. see constructivism.