Meanings
- not comparablerareIn reverse alphabetical order.
The stories might be arranged in alphabetical (or zetabetical!) order.
1989, Virginia A. Arnold, Connections: language arts/reading - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 322 more examples
Whether the reader wants to know what a googol is (it's an extremely large number, written out in full: one, followed by one hundred zeros); something about game theory; about serendipity; series; stochastic processes; Z charts or zetabetical sequences (in reverse alphabetical order) - or countless useful bits of statistical and business mathematical information, they are all to be found here.
1974, Accountancy - Volume 85, page 120I'd cleaned the bathroom and washed the kitchen floor, taken out the recycling and arranged all the tins in the cupboard so that the labels were facing forwards in zetabetical order.
2017, Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, →ISBN, page 96
Origin
Blend of zeta + alphabetical.
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