tilde

Plural: tildes

Noun

• A diacritical mark (~) placed over a letter, as in Spanish señor.
• a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
• A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
• In Spanish, ⟨ñ⟩ is a palatalized ⟨n⟩, for example in ⟨cañón⟩.
• A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
• In Portuguese, ⟨ã⟩ and ⟨õ⟩ are nasalized vowels, for example in ⟨canção⟩.
• A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
• Another name for the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã, which is placed above a vowel to indicate a creaky rising tone (thanh ngã).
• A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
• Another name for apex, a curved diacritic used in the 17th century to mark final nasalization in the early Vietnamese alphabet. It was an adoption of the Portuguese tilde.
• A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
• A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
• The character encoded as decimal 126 in the 1967 ASCII character set, and later in the 1992 Unicode character set.
• A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
• A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number). This use is common in Asia, where the symbol in this case is also called a wave dash.
• A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
• In lexicography, the ⟨~⟩ symbol is used used to indicate the repetition of the topical word or item. In this case, the symbol is also called a swung dash.
• A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
• May be used to represent approximation, in English prose and in mathematics. For example, “My dog weighs ~30 pounds.”
• A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
• An alternate form of the logical negation operator, which is usually written as ¬.

Examples

• He wished he could use a TILDE on his blank tile to make a fancy foreign word, but alas, Scrabble rules.

Related Words

ASCII, apex, hyphen, positioned in middle height of line, swung dash, ~