TILDE - Definition

WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[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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	See Also:	diacritic, diacritical mark

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\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.

Computing Dictionary

	Definition:	"~" 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).