What does alphabetic mean in crosswords?

alphabetic means: arranged in order according to the alphabet

Which crossword clues can have alphabetic as the answer?

Possible clues for alphabetic include "In A-to-Z order", "Letter-based".

Word entry · 10 letters

Best crossword clue

"In A-to-Z order"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aabcehilptStarts with AEnds with C2 cluesCommon crossword word

1A2L3P4H5A6B7E8T9I10C

Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.

“Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]”
“Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character.”
“The natural sequence of alphabetics is A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z. For some codes, the binary bit patterns of the alphabetics are in the same relative sequence as the alphabetics.”

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01“In A-to-Z order”10 letters

02“Letter-based”10 letters

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