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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound [syn: umlaut, dieresis, diaeresis]
Merriam Webster's
variant of diaeresis
Oxford Reference Dictionary
US var. of DIAERESIS.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Dieresis Di*er"e*sis, n. [NL.] Same as Di[ae]resis.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Diaeresis Di*[ae]r"e*sis, Dieresis Di*er"e*sis (?; 277), n.; pl. Di[ae]reses or Diereses. [L. diaeresis, Gr. ?, fr. ? to divide; dia` through, asunder + ? to take. See Heresy.] 1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of syn[ae]resis. 2. A mark consisting of two dots [[umlaut]], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, co["o]perate, a["e]rial.
