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diaeresis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun diaeresis has 1 sense
- diaeresis(n = noun.communication) dieresis, umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound; Array is a kind of diacritic, diacritical mark
OXFORD DICTIONARY
diaeresis, n. (US dieresis) (pl. -ses)
1 a mark (as in na{iuml}ve) over a vowel to indicate that it is sounded separately.
2 Prosody a break where a foot ends at the end of a word.
1 a mark (as in na{iuml}ve) over a vowel to indicate that it is sounded separately.
2 Prosody a break where a foot ends at the end of a word.
Etymology
L f. Gk, = separation
THESAURUS
diaeresis
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, analysis, anapest, anatomy, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, breakdown, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dimeter, dipody, dissection, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, resolution, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee
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