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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.

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Usage examples (31)
  • It's called a tilde, and it lets you turn the gravity off.
  • The tilde is the ~, probably located at the upper left of your keyboard.
  • Use a "tilde" e.g.: "~infosys" finds IT companies similar to Infosys 13
  • Thanx~ is called a tilde
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