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–noun

1.	a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.

2.	swung dash.

3.	Mathematics. a symbol (∼) indicating equivalency or similarity between two values.

4.	Logic. a similar symbol indicating negation.

[Origin: 1860–65; < Sp < L titulus superscription. See title

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til·de Audio Help (tĭl'də) Pronunciation Key
n. A diacritical mark ( ~ ) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate the palatal nasal sound (ny), as in cañon, or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization, as in lã, pão.

[Spanish, alteration of obsolete Catalan title, from Latin titulus, superscription.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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1864, from Sp., metathesis of Catalan title, from L. titulus "inscription, heading" (see title).

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tilde
noun
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

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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)

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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.

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