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diacritic
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di·a·crit·ic (d-krtk) or di·a·crit·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
Diagnostic or distinctive.

diacritic
diagnostic; distinguishing.


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Should revised editions be issued, it is suggested that the incorporation of diacritical marks for Japanese names and terms, and the substitution of pinyin spellings for Chinese names, would improve the text significantly.
The accents and other diacritical marks we now use to write ancient Greek are comparatively late inventions.
Diacritical marks that indicate vowel mutation also give rise to a different order.
 
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