Aleph

Aleph or alef has several meanings:

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• Aleph or Alef, first letter of many Semitic alphabets including Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic. {{unicode|ʾalif}} is the equivalent letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• Alef, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9;
• Alef, one of the main protagonists in SEGA's Shining Force;
• Aleph, a character in the comic book series Global Frequency, written by Warren Ellis;
• Aleph, a shorthand designation for Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible;
• Aleph, a short story by author Georg Brandes;
• Aleph, a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo;
• Aleph, 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;
• aleph number or cardinality, the measurement of mathematical sets?
• aleph null (), the cardinality of countable infinite sets;
• aleph one (), the cardinality of certain uncountably infinite sets (including the real numbers if one assumes the Continuum Hypothesis)
• Aleph One, an ongoing project related to the computer game Marathon;
• The Aleph, a short story by author Jorge Luis Borges.
• Aleph was an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of Mach.
• Members of the Aleph Zadik Aleph are referred to as Alephs.
• There is a Mount Aleph in the video game Golden Sun.