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Tilde

The tilde (/ˈtɪldə/, also /ˈtɪld, -di, -deɪ/) is a grapheme ⟨˜⟩ or ⟨~⟩ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish tilde, which, in turn, came from the Latin titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use internationally is as a diacritic in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form, most…

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Tilde

Top relations

related to Connection to Spanish · 18
Tilde → And, As, CN, CNN, English, In Spanish, National Basketball Association, NBA, Particularly, Spain, Spain's, Spanish, Spanish-language, Spanish-speaking, The, The Instituto Cervantes, This, US
related to Unicode and Shift JIS encoding of wave dash · 15
Tilde → FF5E, FF5E FULLWIDTH TILDE, FULLWIDTH TILDE, In, It, Japanese, Japanese Windows, JIS, Mac OS, Microsoft's, Shift JIS, This, Unicode, WAVE DASH, Windows
related to The centralized ASCII tilde · 13
Tilde → ASCII, CCITT, English, French, German, Like Portuguese, Scandinavian, Spanish, The, The ASA, Western European, X3, Yucca's
see also · 12
Tilde → Backtick, Caret, Circumflex, Curved, Diacritical, Double, East Asian, Freestanding, Tittle, Typographical, Vietnamese, VietnameseWave
related to Punctuation · 10
Tilde → Chinese, Doing, East Asian, For, French, In, In English, The, Unicode, WAVE DASH
related to Use by medieval scribes · 10
Tilde → Anno Domini, Ao Dñi, Devon, Domesday Book, Latin, Medieval European, Molland, The, This, Thus
related to Role of mechanical typewriters · 7
Tilde → Keys, On, Portuguese, Spanish, The, Typewriters, With
related to Combining double tilde · 6
Tilde → According, Accordingly, COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE, IPA, Tagalog, Unicode
related to Common use in English · 5
Tilde → Another, Informally, It, The, The English
related to Letters with tilde · 5
Tilde → COMBINING TILDE, COMBINING TILDE BELOW, In, Latin, Unicode

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used letter also diacritic indicate spanish use unicode operator example two symbol character languages language combining letters needed dash may

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
TildeIn Unicode.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+007E ~ TILDE U+0303 ◌̃ COMBINING TILDE1.00infobox
Tildeis adiacritic mark placed over a letter to indicate a change in its pronunciation0.90text
Tildeis astandard keytop and pressing it produces a free-standing0.90text
fanfictioninstance ofespecially in informal writing0.80text
to convey a cutesyinstance ofespecially in informal writing0.80text
playfulinstance ofespecially in informal writing0.80text
or flirtatious tone.The similar-looking character wave dashinstance ofespecially in informal writing0.80text
onomatopoeiainstance offinal tildes imply sounds0.80text
sound extensionsinstance offinal tildes imply sounds0.80text
those of arraysinstance ofconcatenation operator0.80text
and to indicate an object destructorinstance ofconcatenation operator0.80text
the classic Mac OSinstance ofIn other platforms0.80text

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    Tilde

    Nodes292
    Edges291
    Triples129
    Avg. degree1.99
    Density0.006849
    Components1
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