Usually means: Prefix indicating absence or negation.
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  1. alpha privative: Merriam-Webster
  2. alpha privative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. alpha privative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alpha privative: Vocabulary.com
  5. alpha privative: Wiktionary
  6. alpha privative: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. alpha privative: Dictionary.com
  8. Alpha privative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. alpha privative: Rhymezone
  10. alpha privative: FreeDictionary.org
  11. alpha privative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. alpha privative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. alpha privative: Merriam-Webster

(Note: See alpha_privatives as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alpha privative)

noun:  (grammar) The prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence. The prefix has cognates in other Indo-European languages, including in- in Latin and un- in English, all traceable back to Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
noun:  (grammar) Either the aforementioned privative a or the Greek ἀ- (a-) itself (from which the English descendant derives).
noun:  (grammar) A word formed using such prefixes.

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