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 Tilde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The practice of using the tilde over a vowel to indicate omission of an "n" or "m" continued in printed books in French as a means of reducing text length until the 17th century.
In C++, the tilde is also used as the first character in a class's method name (where the rest of the name must be the same name as the class) to indicate a destructor - a special method which is called at the end of the object's life.
In the CSS stylesheet language, the tilde is used for the indirect adjacent combinator as part of a selector.
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 Tilde - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The tilde is the highest evolutionary form of punctuation.
A tilde before a number used to mean "approximately".
In this case, the tilde is used by retarded anime fangirls as a failed attempt to sound "cute", when placed between the body of text and an exclamation mark.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Tilde   (232 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tilde
In Greek a diacritic identical in shape to the tilde is one method of representing the circumflex used in polytonic orthography.
In Japanese, the tilde is also used to separate a title and a subtitle in the same line.
In the C++ programming language, the tilde is used as the first character in a class's function name (where the rest of the name must be the same name as the class) to indicate a destructor - a special function which is called at the end of the object's life.
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 Anime News Network - Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions.
A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative.
A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator.
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 tilde Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
tilde Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet
Common names are: {ITU-T}: tilde; squiggle; {twiddle}; not.
The "swung dash" or "approximation" sign is not quite the same as {tilde} in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for both (compare {angle brackets}).
www.jaysir.com /computer-encyclopedia/t/tilde-computer-terms.htm   (110 words)

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