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DIAERESIS
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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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