diacritic
Speech parts
1. diacritic - Noun
2. diacritic - Adjective
3. diacritic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Alt. of Diacritical
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students having superior diacritic powers
the diacritic elements in culture
A diacritic key is activated by pressing and releasing it, then pressing the letter that requires a diacritic.
But even with these alphabets, diacritics pose a complication: they can be regarded either as part of a single character containing a letter and diacritic (known as a precomposed character), or as separate characters.
By being made superscript, any IPA letter may function as a diacritic, conferring elements of its articulation to the base letter.
Alphabetization or collation main Different languages use different rules to put diacritic characters in alphabetical order.