Definition of "diaeresis" []

• Variant of dieresis. (noun)

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• "The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'."
• "She loved having two dots over the e of her name and told everyone that they were called a diaeresis and meant that both the o and the e were to be sounded."
• "So there is a key called diaeresis (¨), which on the British keyboard is got by using Alt Gr and the left square bracket, so: AltGr+ ["