Editing Tilde (section)

{{Short description|Punctuation and accent mark}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Infobox symbol
|mark=~{{nbsp}}◌&#x0303;
|name=Tilde (symbol) <br />Combining tilde (diacritic)
|unicode={{unichar|007E|html=}} <br />{{unichar|0303|cwith=◌}}
}}
{{Orthography notation}}

The '''tilde''' ({{IPAc-en|"|t|I|l|d|@}}, also {{IPAc-en|"|t|I|l|d|,_|-|d|i||,_|-|d|eI}})<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Chambers Dictionary|publisher=Chambers|year=2003|isbn=0-550-10105-5|edition=9th|chapter=tilde}}</ref> is a [[grapheme]] {{angbr|'''˜'''}} or {{angbr|'''~'''}} with a number of uses. The name of the character came into [[English language|English]] from [[Spanish language|Spanish]] {{wikt-lang|es|tilde}}, which in turn came from the [[Latin]] {{wikt-lang|la|titulus}}, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'.<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|tilde}}</ref> Its primary use is as a [[diacritic]] (accent) in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate [[approximation]].