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tilde
Danish
Proper noun
{{given name|female||da:}}, short form of
Mathilde
.
----
German
Noun
tilde
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Swedish
Proper noun
{{given name|female||sv:}}, a Danish type variant of
Tilda
( =
Matilda
).
io:Tilde
he:Tilde
pt:Tilde
zh:Tilde
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tilde \Til"de\, n. [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title,
token, sign. See
Title
, n.]
The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in
Spanish words [thus, [~n], [~l]], indicating that, in
pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be
preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet
Tilde
n : 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
FOLDOC
tilde
"~"
ASCII
character 126.
Common names are:
ITU-T
: tilde; squiggle;
twiddle
; not.
Rare: approx; wiggle;
swung dash
; enyay;
INTERCAL
: sqiggle
(sic).
Used as
C
's prefix
bitwise negation
operator
; and in
Unix
csh
,
GNU Emacs
, and elsewhere, to stand for the
current user's
home directory
, or, when prefixed to a {login
name}, for the given user's home directory.
The "swung dash" or "approximation" sign is not quite the same
as
tilde
in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for
both (compare
angle brackets
).
[Has anyone else heard this called "tidal" (as in wave)?]
(1996-10-18)
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