Definition of diacritic. Meaning of diacritic. Synonyms of diacritic

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Definition of diacritic

Diacritic
Diacritic Di`a*crit"ic, Diacritical Di`a*crit"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to separate, distinguish; dia` through + ? to separate. See Critic.] 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^], ["a], [=o], [o^], etc. ``Diacritical points.' --Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. --A. J. Ellis.

Meaning of diacritic from wikipedia

- used in this article, see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters. A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent)...
- transcribed by one or more IPA symbols of two basic types: letters and diacritics. For example, the sound of the English digraph ⟨ch⟩ may be transcribed...
- and also classical scholarship, describes the form of both the umlaut diacritic and the diaeresis rather than their function and is used in those contexts...
- diacritic (◌̈) placed over a letter, generally a vowel; when that letter is an ⟨i⟩, the diacritic replaces the ****le: ⟨ï⟩. The diaeresis diacritic indicates...
- A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters. It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts. The character...
- titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter; but, for historical reasons...
- Though the standard diacritic involved is a macron, there are no other diacritics used above letters, so in practice other diacritics can and have been...
- Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل)...
- article, see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters. When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot refers to the glyphs "combining dot above" (◌̇), and...
- conjuncts instead of Latin letters. In typesetting, the hook or tail is a diacritic mark attached to letters in many alphabets. In shape it looks like a hook...