Tilde is a noun meaning a diacritic ~ used over certain letters (notably n in Spanish) to indicate palatalization or nasalization, and in mathematics to denote similarity or equivalence. It also appears in computing as a character used in URLs and code. The term originates from the Spanish word tilde, referring to the small wave-like mark. In typography and linguistics, it distinguishes phonetic or semantic qualities in the written form.
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