Tilde

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tilde
       n : 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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  tilde
       
           "~" {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)