| 释义 |
diacritic /duy'euh krit"ik/, n. 1. Also called diacritical mark. a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron. adj. 2. diacritical. 3. diagnostic. [1670-80; < Gk diakritikós distinctive, equiv. to dia- DIA- + kritikós; see CRITIC] |