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A diacritical mark (˜) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate the palatal nasal sound (ny), as in cañon, or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization, as in lã, pão.

A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. In the Unix world, all the popular Unix shells (except for the Bourne shell) support a home directory name substitution using the tilde. Also called a "squiggle" or "twiddle," the symbol is used as a prefix to a user login name to specify that user's home directory. For example, if your user name were "jackson," you would use ~jackson to refer to your home directory. The tilde symbol is a Spanish accent that turns the letter "n" into a "nyeh" sound such as in the word mañana, which is pronounced "mah-nyah-nah" and means "morning" or "tomorrow." The tilde is also used as a mathematical symbol that means the difference between two values or an equivalency between two values. The tilde can also be used as an abbreviation to indicate approximation. ~50 = "approximately 50." It is technically supposed to be two tildes, one over the other, but it has become common to simply use the one symbol. Also, the tilde is used in Symbolic Logic to indicate a "not" value. ~A = "not A." A --> ~B = "If A, then not B"

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