diacritic
a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation • Syn: diacritical mark • Derivationally related forms: diacritical • Hypernyms: mark • Hyponyms: accent, accent mark, breve, cedilla, circumflex, circumflex, wedge, macron, tilde, umlaut, dieresis, diaeresis
capable of distinguishing - students having superior diacritic powers - "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel • Syn: diacritical • Similar to: discriminating • Derivationally related forms: diacritic (for: diacritical)
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