diacritic
Also called diacritical mark . a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.
Origin of diacritic
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How to use diacritic in a sentence
Although some of the diacritics are not found in ISO-8859-1, they can be rendered as html numeric entities.
In Court and Kampong | Hugh CliffordErrors or anomalies include missing, misplaced or incorrect diacritics; the letterform for ; and word-final (mu) for (nu).
The Path-Way to Knowledg | Robert RecordIncorrectly placed breathings and diacritics on diphthongs in the Greek text have been correctly placed.
The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) | Joseph TrappObvious errors of punctuation, capitalization and diacritics repaired.
Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 | William Hutcheon HallInconsistent hyphenation and diacritics of place names and native names have not been changed.
British Dictionary definitions for diacritic
/ (ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪk) /
Also called: diacritical mark a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason
another word for diacritical
Origin of diacritic
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