DIAERESIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: diaereses    , diaerses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel

Synonyms:

diaeresis; dieresis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("diaeresis" is a kind of...):

diacritic; diacritical mark (a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation)

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