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di⋅a⋅crit⋅ic

  [dahy-uh-krit-ik]
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–noun
1. Also called diacritical mark. a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.
–adjective
2. diacritical.
3. diagnostic.
Origin:
1670–80; < Gk diakritikós distinctive, equiv. to dia- dia- + kritikós; see critic
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Word Origin & History

diacritic 
1699, from Gk. diakritikos "that separates or distinguishes," from diakrinein "to separate."
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diacritic di·a·crit·ic (dī'ə-krĭt'ĭk) or di·a·crit·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Diagnostic or distinctive.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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