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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 (13 Mar 01) [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)
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