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diacritical

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1. diacritical - Noun

2. diacritical - Adjective

3. diacritical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.

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students having superior diacritic powers Source: Internet

the diacritic elements in culture Source: Internet

An alternate scheme devised by Frans Velthuis (see § Text in ASCII) allows for typing without diacritics using plain ASCII methods, but is arguably less readable than the standard IAST system, which uses diacritical marks. Source: Internet

Also, digraph diacritics are often used and sometimes even mixed with diacritical letters of standard orthography. Source: Internet

He used diacritical marks on syllables to indicate which should be drawn out (acute e.g. á ) and which uttered quickly (grave, e.g., è). Source: Internet

French treats letters with diacritical marks the same as the underlying letter for purposes of ordering and dictionaries. Source: Internet

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