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▸ noun:  A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
▸ noun:  In Spanish, ⟨ñ⟩ is a palatalized ⟨n⟩, for example in ⟨cañón⟩.
▸ noun:  In Portuguese, ⟨ã⟩ and ⟨õ⟩ are nasalized vowels, for example in ⟨canção⟩.
▸ noun:  Another name for the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã, which is placed above a vowel to indicate a creaky rising tone (thanh ngã).
▸ noun:  Another name for apex, a curved diacritic used in the 17th century to mark final nasalization in the early Vietnamese alphabet. It was an adoption of the Portuguese tilde.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  The character encoded as decimal 126 in the 1967 ASCII character set, and later in the 1992 Unicode character set.
▸ noun:  A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number). This use is common in Asia, where the symbol in this case is also called a wave dash.
▸ noun:  In lexicography, the ⟨~⟩ symbol is used used to indicate the repetition of the topical word or item. In this case, the symbol is also called a swung dash.
▸ noun:  May be used to represent approximation, in English prose and in mathematics. For example, “My dog weighs ~30 pounds.”
▸ noun:  (logic) An alternate form of the logical negation operator, which is usually written as ¬.





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