Diacritic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Diacritical.
  • adj. Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.
  • n. A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. distinguishing
  • adj. Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
  • n. A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, ā, ă, ä, ō, ŏ, etc.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to distinguish: same as diacritical (which is the more common form).
  • n. A diacritical mark (which see, under diacritical).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. capable of distinguishing
  • n. a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
    • Equivalent
    discriminating    diacritical   
    Form
    diacritical   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    diacritical    diacritical mark    accent   
     
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