DIESIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dieses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

Synonyms:

diesis; double dagger; double obelisk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

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