diacritical
diacritical
Definition
dia·criti·cal (-i kəl)
adjective
- serving to distinguish; distinguishing
- able to distinguish
di′a·crit′i·cally adverb
diacritical
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- mark: There are, for example, a variety of problems with diacritical marks.
- sign: Diacritical signs are inserted before the letter to which they should be applied.
- point: These inscriptions usually retain their diacritical points making them fairly easy to read.
- symbol: Czech headings and titles are presented as graphics, with all the diacritical symbols in place.
- structure: Merleau-Ponty endorses the notion of the diacritical structure of language, thereby accepting and incorporating one of the Saussurian ideas but not the other.
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