tilde

3 definitions found

tilde - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tilde \Til"de\, n. [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title,
     token, sign. See Title, n.]
     The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in
     Spanish words [thus, [~n], [~l]], indicating that, in
     pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be
     preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
     [1913 Webster]

tilde - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tilde
      n 1: 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

tilde - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  tilde
  ~
  
     <character> "~" ASCII character 126.
  
     Common names are: ITU-T: tilde; squiggle; twiddle; not.
     Rare: approx; wiggle; swung dash; enyay; INTERCAL: sqiggle
     (sic).
  
     Used as C's prefix bitwise negation operator; and in
     Unix csh, GNU Emacs, and elsewhere, to stand for the
     current user's home directory, or, when prefixed to a login name
     , for the given user's home directory.
  
     The "swung dash" or "approximation" sign is not quite the same
     as tilde in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for
     both (compare angle brackets).
  
     [Has anyone else heard this called "tidal" (as in wave)?]
  
     (1996-10-18)