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What is a tilde?

What is a tilde? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The grapheme of character ~.
    1. A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
    2. A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
    3. May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
  2. (logic) The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.
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A tilde over the vowel indicates a high broken tone, in which the voice starts slightly above the middle of the normal speaking voice range, drops and then rises abruptly.
The circumflex, grave accent, trema and tilde appear on some letters.
On 10 February 1995, the channel introduced a new logo, featuring a tilde representing a dragon.
The fact that the singer was Spanish and that the programme printed the song title with a tilde might have been a clue, anyway.
In modern Paraguayan orthography, the nasal vowels are represented with the nasal tilde over the oral version of the vowel.
In linguistic literature the following accents are used for the Latvian intonations: grave for falling, tilde for extended or rising, and circumflex for broken.

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