: A diacritical mark placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words
a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
A tilde is a symbol that is written over the letter `n' in Spanish ñ and the letters `o' õ and `a' ã in Portuguese to indicate the way in which they should be pronounced. a mark (ñ) placed over the letter 'n' in Spanish to show that it is pronounced /nj (titulus )
The scribbly horizontal line (~) is called a tilde (pronounced "tilda") The tilde is located on the upper left on most keyboards, usually above the backquote Traditionally, a UNIX user's home directory has been known as ~ Therefore, hostname domain name/~username is the generic form for a user's home web space, located in his or her www directory When the Web server sees a URL like this, it knows to look in username's home directory for a www directory Back to Top
A character resembling a curved hyphen (~). ASCII character 126. May represent approximation
Name for the "~" character used extensively for on-line UNIX and World Wide Web addresses
The tilde (~) signifies an individual user's Web site when housed on a server For example, http: //www aol com/~user - says that user is a aol com user and that his homepage is on aol com's server The tilde character is on the top line of your keyboard to the far left
A diacritical mark placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words
A tilde (pronounced TILL-duh or TILL-day) looks like this ~ (provided that your system is displaying a little squiggle and not some other character where that little squiggle should be ) It's a special typographic character found on most keyboards, usually in the upper-left corner, next to the numerals It's sometimes called a "twiddle" or a "squiggle "
The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ñ, <ilde;], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y
When following a payee or category, indicates that the payee or category is used by you and your joint account holder For more information about using: Payees in a joint account, see About Payees in a Joint Account Categories in a joint account, see Using Categories in a Joint Account
A special character The vi text editor displays a tilde at the beginning of each line of the screen that is beyond the end of the file If you change directories with tilde without a username (cd ~), then you will return to your home directory
The tilde (~) signifies an individual user's Web site when housed on a server For example, http: //www gillanet com/~user - says that user is a gillanet com user and that his homepage is on gillanet com's server The tilde character is on the top line of your keyboard to the far left
The tilde (~) signifies an individual user's Web site when housed on a server For example, http: //www cuteftp com/~user - says that user is a cuteftp com user and that his homepage is on cuteftp com's server The tilde character is on the top line of your keyboard to the far left
~, the "little squiggle mark" found in some URLs; it is on your keyboard just to the left of the #1 key
An accent mark (~) placed above a character (as on ñ), used in languages such as Estonian, Navaho, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese and many transliterated (qv) languages (cf accents)