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tilde
[til-duh]
noun
Phonetics, Orthography.a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish ñԲ, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuguese ã, to indicate nasalization.
Mathematics.a symbol (∼) indicating equivalency or similarity between two values.
Logic.a similar symbol indicating negation.
tilde
/ ˈɪə /
noun
the diacritical mark (~) placed over a letter to indicate a palatal nasal consonant, as in Spanish ñǰ. This symbol is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent any nasalized vowel
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tilde1
Example Sentences
When media used his full name, they omitted the tilde in “Cañedo.”
Batiste, who is not a native Spanish speaker, was nervous about navigating the tildes and the rolling Rs.
At the beginning of each episode, Saldaña's name is shown with a tilde over the n.
For the same reason the council also struck down the bill's proposal to allow non-French so-called diacritical marks such as the tilde, in official documents.
While the tilde also never reached critical mass, cutesy emoji faces achieved global dominance, even among business associates.
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