Look up ligature in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ligature may refer to: Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol...

/ /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single...

(lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status...

In surgery or medical procedure, a ligature consists of a piece of thread (suture) tied around an anatomical structure, usually a blood vessel, another...

mechanism used: Hanging — Suspension from a cord wound around the neck Ligature strangulation — Strangulation without suspension using some form of cord-like...

A ligature is a device which holds a reed onto the mouthpiece of a single-reed instrument such as a saxophone or clarinet. The ligature must secure the...

Minuscule: ȣ) is a ligature of the Greek letters ο and υ which was frequently used in Byzantine manuscripts. This omicron-upsilon ligature is still seen today...

grammar, a ligature is a morpheme that links two elements. Albanian morphology#The linking clitic Ezāfe Interfix Miskito grammar#Ligature Tagalog grammar#Ligature...

ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures...

Œ (minuscule: œ) is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally...

the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and"). Ampersand: the sign &;...

In the Japanese writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana...

The Stannius Ligature was an experimental procedure that robustly illustrated impulse conduction in the frog heart. This procedure decisively demonstrated...

letter combinations are written as ligatures (special shapes), notably lām-alif لا, which is the only mandatory ligature (the unligated combination ل‍‌‍ا...

in late medieval and early modern German orthography, represented as a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩...

Stigma (ϛ) is a ligature of the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and tau (Τ), which was used in writing Greek between the Middle Ages and the 19th century. It is...

forms are called tie, double breve, enotikon or papyrological hyphen, ligature tie, and undertie. In the ALA-LC romanization for Russian, a tie symbol...

may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The qp ligature, ȹ, is a typographic ligature of Latin letters q and p, and is used in some phonetic transcription...

i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself. In most fonts that have a separate character for...

In music notation, a ligature is a graphic symbol that tells a musician to perform two or more notes in a single gesture, and on a single syllable. It...

count as one letter. In Middle Welsh it was written with a tied ligature; this ligature is included in the Latin Extended Additional Unicode block as U+1EFA...

the two twists in the bottom and the one on top Names Surgeon's knot, Ligature knot Category Binding Category 2 Bend Related reef knot, Double overhand...

are spoken long. Typographically, the numero sign combines as a single ligature the uppercase Latin letter ⟨N⟩ with a usually superscript lowercase letter...

during the Byzantine era and is now known as stigma after the Byzantine ligature combining σ-τ as ϛ. Digamma or wau was part of the original archaic Greek...

The db ligature, ȸ, is a typographic ligature of Latin d and b, and used in Africanist linguistics for the transcription of certain African languages to...

letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters...

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle...

the inverted wh-spelling for [ʍ]). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature ƕ (capital Ƕ) used to transcribe Gothic. The name of the Gothic letter...

a weapon and a method of capital punishment. It consists of a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line, used to strangle a person...

adopted in the 13th century. In reformed Armenian orthography (1920s), the ligature և ev is also treated as a letter, bringing the total number of letters...