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diacritic Definition

dia·crit·ic (dī′ə krit′ik)

adjective

diacritical

Etymology: Gr diakritikos < diakrinein, to distinguish < dia-, across + krinein, to discern: see crisis

noun

a diacritical mark
diacritic Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • use: He proposed to use Kurdish diacritics instead of Arabic ones.
  • include: Many characters have a variety of forms, including diacritics or contextual variants.
  • add: Kingthings Petrock has added diacritics and other user friendly characters ( and a dagger - People seem to want them?

Adjective modifier

  • full: If you have the font Times New Roman ISO 8859-2 or Latin-2 available, you can view a version with full diacritics.

Modifies a noun

  • mark: Unfortunately the diacritic marks will not show in normal type.

Preposition: in

  • language: Diacritics in other languages have no effect on the filing of letters.