tilde

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til·de / ˈtildə/ • n. an accent (˜) placed over Spanish n when pronounced ny (as in señor) or Portuguese a or o when nasalized (as in São Paulo), or over a vowel in phonetic transcription, indicating nasalization. ∎ the same symbol as a part of a URL. ∎  a similar symbol used in mathematics to indicate similarity, and in logic to indicate negation.

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tilde

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tilde sign ˜ placed over n in Spanish to indicate the palatalized sound. XIX. — Sp. — L. titulus TITLE.

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