Tilde

~ ◌̃
Tilde (symbol), Combining tilde (diacritic)
In UnicodeU+007E ~ TILDE
U+0303 ◌̃ COMBINING TILDE
Related
See alsoDouble tilde (disambiguation)
U+301C WAVE DASH

The tilde (/ˈtɪldə/, also /ˈtɪld, -di, -d/)[1] is a grapheme ˜ or ~ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish tilde, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'.[2] 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.

  1. ^ "tilde". The Chambers Dictionary (9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5.
  2. ^ "tilde". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.