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Diaeresis (dieresis, diƫresis) may refer to: *
Diaeresis (prosody) In poetic meter, diaeresis ( or , also spelled diƦresis or dieresis) has two meanings: the separate pronunciation of the two vowels in a diphthong for the sake of meter, and a division between feet that corresponds to the division between words ...
, pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word * Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong * Diaeresis (diacritic), a diacritic consisting of two side-by-side dots that marks disyllabicity * Diaeresis (computing), the two-dot diacritic used in unicode


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Two dots (diacritic) Diacritical marks of two dots , placed side-by-side over or under a letter, are used in a number of languages for several different purposes. The most familiar to English language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut, though there are num ...
, the "two side-by-side dots" diacritic, often called a "Diaeresis", despite its having further linguistic uses, such as umlaut and schwa. * Diairesis, a term in Platonic and Stoic philosophy, the division of a genus into its parts {{disambiguation sv:Trema#Avskiljande funktion: dieresis