Definition of diacritical mark Diacritical mark
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What does diacritical mark mean?
WordNet
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| diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | ||
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| mark the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember; "it was in London that he made his mark"; "he left an indelible mark on the American theater" | ||
| accent mark, accent a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | ||
| breve a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | ||
| cedilla a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s | ||
| circumflex a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | ||
| hacek, wedge a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | ||
| macron a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound | ||
| tilde a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | ||
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Wiktionary 
- diacritical mark (Noun)
A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e. g. in Vietnamese or pinyin romanised Mandarin Chinese.
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diacritical mark
A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
