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Definition of dieresis noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

dieresis

noun

NAmE//daɪˈɛrəsəs//

(pl. diereses

NAmE//daɪˈɛrəsiz//

) (technology)

the mark placed over a vowel to show that it is pronounced separately, as in naïve

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