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Diacritic

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Noun

1. diacritic, diacritical mark

a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

Adjective

2. diacritic, diacritical

capable of distinguishing

Example Sentences:
'students having superior diacritic powers'
'the diacritic elements in culture'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Diacritic

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noun
1. Also called: diacritical mark
a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason
adjective
2.  another word for diacritical

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Diacritic

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adjective
1. 
diacritical
noun
2. 
a diacritical mark

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Diacritic

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adj.
1. Diacritical.
2. Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.
n.
A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accents of résumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.

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