tilde
pronunciation
How to pronounce tilde in British English:
UK [ˈtɪldə]
How to pronounce tilde in American English:
US [ˈtɪldə]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- tilde
- tilde: see title
- tilde (n.)
- 1864, from Spanish, metathesis of Catalan title, from vernacular form of Medieval Latin titulus "stroke over an abridged word to indicate missing letters," a specialized sense of Latin titulus, literally "inscription, heading" (see title (n.)). The mark itself represents an -n- and was used in Medieval Latin manuscripts in an abridged word over a preceding letter to indicate a missing -n- and save space.
Example
- 1. To hunt larger bears , push the tilde key and type " tom " .
- 2. Using a tilde with a search term will bring you results with related search terms .
- 3. The second line tells git to ignore all files that end with a tilde .
- 4. Tilde " n " s alone took up a whole shelf .
- 5. With rossella and enrico . Tilde 's here too .