| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | alpha blending | Alpha 透明混色 (In computer graphics, a technique that causes a foreground image to appear partially transparent over a background image. The technique blends the background image with partially transparent pixels in the foreground image by performing a weighted average of the color components of the two images) |
| comp., MS | alpha channel | Alpha 色板 (The opacity of an image defined by an alpha value per pixel interleaved with the color components (for example ARGB) an alpha value per pixel stored in a separate alpha surface or a constant alpha value for the entire surface) |
| comp., MS | alpha mask | Alpha 遮罩 (A path or shape that is applied to another object. The transparent portions of the path represent areas where the underlying image is hidden, whereas the opaque portions of the mask indicate where the masked object is allowed) |
| comp., MS | alpha premultiplied | Alpha 預乘 (Pertaining to the technique of scaling the three color components of a sample by alpha before storing their values. This saves many mathematical steps when alpha blending two images. For the PMARGB32 pixel format, all color values are alpha premultiplied) |
| comp., MS | alpha test | Alpha 測試 (A type of post-pixel blending operation which allows applications to control when pixels are written to the render target) |
| comp., MS | alpha version | Alpha 版本 (A very early release of a product to get preliminary feedback about the feature set and usability) |