tildes
- 1Plural of tilde.
Portuguese places tildes over certain vowels to mark nasal sounds.
She added the missing tildes to the Spanish text before sending it to the printer.
Note
A regular plural that covers two quite different things. Over letters, tildes are diacritics: the mark that makes Spanish ñ, the nasal sign on Portuguese ã and õ, the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã. On a keyboard they are the standalone ⟨~⟩ character, ASCII 126, also called swung dashes or wave dashes, and in computing sometimes squiggles or twiddles. Context usually shows which is meant.
tildes is a form of tilde
tilde, noun: A written symbol ⟨~⟩, also called a swung dash or wave dash, and known to computer users as a squiggle or twiddle. Full entry
- Forms
- tildetildes plural
- Spelling
- tilde → tildes: add -s
Use it in a sentence
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