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Definition of Diacritical

Diacritical
Diacritic Di`a*crit"ic, Diacritical Di`a*crit"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to separate, distinguish; dia` through + ? to separate. See Critic.] That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, [=a], [a^], ["a], [=o], [o^], etc. ``Diacritical points.' --Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. --A. J. Ellis.

Meaning of Diacritical from wikipedia

- [ ] are used here, see this page. A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to...
- most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode also contains many precomposed...
- Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner"...
- Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement is a Unicode block containing combining characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Medievalist notations, and...
- Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols is a Unicode block containing arrows, dots, enclosures, and overlays for modifying symbol characters. Its block...
- Combining Diacritical Marks Extended is a Unicode block containing diacritical marks used in German dialectology (Teuthonista). The following Unicode-related...
- after Wilhelm Röntgen, and biro after László Bíró, in which case any diacritical mark is often lost. Unlike continental European languages, English orthography...
- alterity to the status of undecidable sublimity." He calls his approach "diacritical hermeneutics." Continental philosophy Postmodern Christianity Kearney...
- section on romanizing Gr**** diacritical marks below. The traditional polytonic orthography of Gr**** uses several distinct diacritical marks to render what was...
- The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In...