tilde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til.
Inflected forms:
form: tildes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
pos: noun
examples: California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
gloss: A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
pos: noun
examples: The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally.
gloss: A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
pos: noun
gloss: A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: swung dash A stock keyboard character, used in mathematics as the sign of similarity (a ~ b) and in lexicography as a sign of repetition. The same sign has been used in symbolic logic to indicate negation, but to avoid confusion, the angular negation symbol (¬) is preferred. Not to be confused with the tilde.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Related words: ASCII
hyphen
swung dash
positioned in middle height of line
apex
~
Derived words: middle tilde
overtilde
undertilde
zilde
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تِلْدَة
roman: tilda
lang: Bulgarian
word: ти́лда
roman: tílda
lang: Catalan
word: titlla
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: ∼
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: ~
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 波浪號 /波浪号
roman: bōlànghào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 波浪符
roman: bōlàngfú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 波形號 /波形号
roman: bōxínghào
lang: Czech
word: vlnovka
lang: Czech
word: tilda
lang: Danish
word: tilde
lang: Dutch
word: tilde
lang: Esperanto
word: tildo
lang: Estonian
word: tilde
lang: Finnish
word: aaltoviiva
lang: Finnish
word: tilde
lang: French
word: tilde
lang: German
word: Schlangenlinie
lang: German
word: Tilde
lang: Greek
word: περισπωμένη
roman: perispoméni
lang: Hebrew
word: גַּל
roman: gál
lang: Hebrew
word: זַרְקָא
roman: zarqá
lang: Hungarian
word: hullámvonal
lang: Hungarian
word: tilde
lang: Hungarian
word: hullám
lang: Icelandic
word: bylgja
lang: Italian
word: tilde
lang: Japanese
word: チルダ
roman: chiruda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کەشە
roman: keşe
lang: Macedonian
word: ти́лда
roman: tílda
lang: Māori
word: tire
lang: Polish
word: tylda
lang: Portuguese
word: til
lang: Romanian
word: tildă
lang: Russian
word: ти́льда
roman: tílʹda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tilda
lang: Spanish
word: tilde
lang: Spanish
word: virgulilla
lang: Swedish
word: tilde
lang: Tagalog
word: tilde
lang: Ukrainian
word: ти́льда
roman: týlʹda
lang: Vietnamese
word: dấu mềm
lang: Welsh
word: tild