Diaeresis
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Diaeresis or dieresis may refer to:
- Diaeresis (prosody)Diaeresis (prosody)In poetic meter, diaeresis 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 - Hiatus (linguistics)Hiatus (linguistics)In phonology, hiatus or diaeresis refers to two vowel sounds occurring in adjacent syllables, with no intervening consonant. When two adjacent vowel sounds occur in the same syllable, the result is instead described as a diphthong....
, two adjacent vowels, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong - Diaeresis (diacritic), a diacritic consisting of two dots that marks a hiatus