- Look up
ligature in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ligature may
refer to:
Ligature (writing), a
combination of two or more
letters into a
single symbol...
- / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. In
writing and typography, a
ligature occurs where two or more
graphemes or
letters are
joined to form a single...
- (lowercase: æ) is a
character formed from the
letters a and e,
originally a
ligature representing the
Latin diphthong ae. It has been
promoted to the status...
-
wound around the neck
Ligature strangulation —
Strangulation without suspension using some form of cord-like
object (
ligature)
called a
garrote Manual...
- In
surgery or
medical procedure, a
ligature consists of a
piece of
thread (suture) tied
around an
anatomical structure,
usually a
blood vessel, another...
- A
ligature is a
device which holds a reed onto the
mouthpiece of a single-reed
instrument such as a
saxophone or clarinet. The
ligature must
secure the...
- Minuscule: ȣ) is a
ligature of the Gr****
letters ο and υ
which was
frequently used in
Byzantine m****cripts. This omicron-upsilon
ligature is
still seen today...
- the
logogram &,
representing the
conjunction "and". It
originated as a
ligature of the
letters of the word et (Latin for "and"). Ampersand: the sign &;...
- in late
medieval and
early modern German orthography,
represented as a
ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in
blackletter typefaces,
yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩...
- In the ****anese
writing system kana
ligatures (****anese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are
ligatures in the kana
writing system, both
hiragana and katakana...
