Diaeresis (dieresis, diæresis, diëresis) may refer to: *

Diaeresis (prosody) In poetic meter, diaeresis ( ; also spelled diæresis 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) In phonology, hiatus ( ) or diaeresis ( ; also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part of a si ...

, or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong *

Diaeresis (diacritic) Diaeresis ( ) is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots () that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables a vowel hiatus (also called a diaeresis) rather than a digraph or diphthong. It consists of a two dots diacrit ...

, a diacritic consisting of two side-by-side dots that marks disyllabicity *

Diaeresis (computing) Diacritical marks of two dots , placed side-by-side over or under a letter, are used in several languages for several different purposes. The most familiar to English-language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut, though there are numerou ...

, the name used by the Unicode Consortium for the "two-dots above" diacritic

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