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Definition of diacritics in English English dictionary
- The marks used in dictionaries to symbolize pronounciation
- plural of diacritic
- diacritic
- A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning
- diacritic
- Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character
- diacritic
- distinguishing
- diacritic
- {s} serving as a diacritical mark; serving to distinguish, distinctive
- diacritic
- {i} diacritical mark, mark on a letter that shows its pronunciation (or stress, etc.); distinguishing mark
- diacritic
- capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S
- diacritic
- These are acents characters that may appear with another character - such as the German umlaut
- diacritic
- a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
- diacritic
- a written symbol which is structurally dependent upon another symbol; that is, a symbol that does not occur independently, but always occurs with and is visually positioned in relation to another character, usually above or below Diacritics are also sometimes referred to as accents For example, acute, grave, circumflex, etc
- diacritic
- That separates or distinguishes; applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, ā, ă, ä, ō, &obreve;, etc
- diacritic
- (1) a mark applied or attached to a symbol in order to create a new symbol that represents an entirely new value; (2) a mark applied to a symbol irrespective of whether it changes the value of that symbol In the latter case, the diacritic usually represents an independent value, e g , an accent, tone, or some other linguistic information Also called diacritical mark, or diacritical See also non-spacing mark and combining mark
- diacritic
- Refers to a character or symbol which has no standard keyboard equivalent, such as â, æ, ç, etc Because they cannot be represented using a standard keyboard, diacritics are typically stripped from source data during the database build process The pippin utility program is responsible for stripping/substituting diacritics during the database build process The diacritics substitution tables pippin uses to process diacritics can be customized
- diacritic
- capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S F Nadel
- diacritic
- (1) A mark applied or attached to a symbol to create a new symbol that represents a modified or new value (2) A mark applied to a symbol irrespective of whether it changes the value of that symbol In the latter case, the diacritic usually represents an independent value (for example, an accent, tone, or some other linguistic information) Also called diacritical mark or diacritical (See also combining character and nonspacing mark )
- diacritic
- Nadel
- diacritic
- a mark placed over, under, or through a letter in some languages, to show that the letter should be pronounced differently from the same letter without a mark (diakritikos, from krinein )
- diacritic
- A mark added to a letter or symbol indicating a change in its usual pronunciation, e g á, ê, ü
- diacritic
- 1 Any mark placed over, under, or through a character, usually to indicate a change in phonetic value from the unmarked state