单词 | tilde |
释义 | tilden. 1. a. The diacritic mark ˜ placed in Spanish above the letter n to indicate the mouillé or palatalized sound /ɲ/, as in señor /sɛɲor/. Also, the mark placed in Portuguese above the letters a and o to indicate nasalization. Used similarly in systems of phonetic transcription. Originally the mouillé sound was written nn, as in the parallel ll; the tilde is an abbreviated form of the second n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of > in Spanish tilde1864 society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of prickOE tittlec1384 acute accent1555 windabout1589 cerilla1591 cedilla1599 acute1609 circumflex1609 grave1609 diaeresis1611 dialysis1665 dot1693 short accent, mark1704 long mark1729 síneadh fada1768 macron1851 macrotone1880 tilde1915 umlaut1938 fada1981 ogonek1981 society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of > in Portuguese tilde1958 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan. It is not considered [by the authoress] of any importance if the word señor remains without its tilde. 1915 G. Noël-Armfield General Phonetics xvi. 88 The phonetic symbol for nasalised vowels is [˜] (the Spanish tilde) placed over the vowel symbol. 1958 J. L. Taylor Portuguese-Eng. Dict. (1959) p. x/2 If a word bears a tilde..stress the syllable so marked. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 147/2 Typical of the Portuguese sound system is the use of nasal vowels, indicated in the orthography by m or n following the vowel..or by the use of a tilde..over the vowel. b. Palaeography and Early Printing. The diacritic mark ˜ placed above a letter to indicate contraction of a following n or m. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > mark over vowels for m or n tilde1959 society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > omission marks apostrophe1598 caret1710 eclipsis1727 break1733 dash1733 blank1773 ellipsis1795 tilde1959 1959 Notes & Queries Feb. 77/2 From c. 1560 the tilde was used in printed English dramatic texts only over the vowels a, e, o, and u. 1975 J. Butcher Copy-editing xi. 205 Superscript letters and tildes (nunnation marks) in contractions are normalized to modern usage unless there are good reasons to the contrary. 2. Used as a symbol in Mathematics and Logic, chiefly to indicate negation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > collection or sequence of > other vinculum1710 nabla1870 sign of inequality1875 second-mark1888 placeholder1928 tilde1958 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > mathematical or symbolic logic > Polish school of symbolic logic > symbols parenthesis1880 incomplete symbol1910 stroke1925 horseshoe1926 Sheffer('s) stroke1932 hook1967 tilde1979 1958 New Scientist 10 July 364/2 If A is a matrix it is usual to denote the transpose of A by A′ or A*, and the trace of A by tr A. However, the author plays the part of ‘the odd man out’ by placing a tilde (˜) over A to denote the transpose of A. 1971 G. Hunter Metalogic 54 We shall call the tilde and the hook the connectives of P. 1979 D. R. Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach viii. 212 With the tilde in front, the whole statement is denied. 1982 S. Afr. Jrnl. Philos. 1 117/1 The standard interpretation of the propositional calculus identifies the tilde with the English word not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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