Diacritic mark in the shape of a small horizontal snake-like line above a Latin or Greek letter. In Portuguese, the tilde is used to designate nasal vowels: São Paolo, naciões (‘nations’); in ancient Greek, and in Lithuanian...

n. The diacritic ~, conventionally used in various orthographies and transcriptions for various purposes. In Spanish and Basque, the character n represents the palatal nasal In the IPA, a tilde above a character represents nasalization: hence [a]...

For the baseball player known as the Big Tilde, see Magglio Ordóñez. The tilde (~) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, and is pronounced til-de. It...