Tilde Definition

tĭldə
noun
The diacritical mark (˜), used for example over the letter n in Spanish to indicate the palatal nasal sound (ny), as in cañón, “canyon,” and over the vowels a and o in Portuguese to indicate nasalization, as in pão, “bread.”
American Heritage
A mark (~) used:
Webster's New World
A similar mark (~), used to express negation in mathematics or logic or to express similarity in geometry.
Webster's New World

A key found on some types of keyboards.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Tilde

Noun

Singular:
tilde
Plural:
tildes

Origin of Tilde

  • Spanish alteration of obsolete Catalan title from Latin titulus superscription

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”).

    From Wiktionary

Tilde Sentence Examples

  • The civil dissensions of Egypt were notorious at the tilDe.

  • Print a summary of tilde escapes, paged through the command specified by the PAGER variable.

  • Hence, the default is to expand the leading tilde under UNIX, and not under Microsoft Windows.

  • After adding the tilde to both extensions, restart the Macintosh.

  • You can exclude certain books that contain a specific word by entering that word preceded by a tilde.

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Words Starting With

TTITIL

Words Ending With

EDELDE

Unscrambles

tilde

Words Starting With T and Ending With E

Starts With T & Ends With EStarts With TI & Ends With EStarts With T & Ends With DE

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With T5 Letter Words Ending With E