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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Spanish, from Medieval Latin titulus tittle Date: circa 1864 1. a mark ˜ placed especially over the letter n (as in Spanish señor sir) to denote the sound n? or over vowels (as in Portuguese irmã sister) to indicate nasality 2. a. the mark tilde used to indicate negation in logic and the geometric relation “is similar to” in mathematics b. the mark tilde used to indicate an approximate value

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a mark (tilde), put over a letter, e.g. over a Spanish n when pronounced ny (as in señor) or a Portuguese a or o when nasalized (as in S Usage: o Paulo). Etymology: Sp., ult. f. L titulus TITLE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tilde Til"de, n. [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title, token, sign. See Title, n.] The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, [~n], [~l]], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tildes) A tilde is a symbol that is written over the letter 'n' in Spanish ñ and the letters 'o' õ and 'a' ã in Portuguese to indicate the way in which they should be pronounced. N-COUNT