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...
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/ /, 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...
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Æ (redirect from AE ligature)
(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...
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In surgery or medical procedure, a ligature consists of a piece of thread (suture) tied around an anatomical structure, usually a blood vessel, another...
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Strangling (redirect from Ligature strangulation)
mechanism used: Hanging — Suspension from a cord wound around the neck Ligature strangulation — Strangulation without suspension using some form of cord-like...
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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...
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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...
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Œ (redirect from OE ligature)
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...
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Ampersand (category Latin-script ligatures)
the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and"). Ampersand: the sign &;...
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ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures...
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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...
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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...
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The Stannius Ligature was an experimental procedure that robustly illustrated impulse conduction in the frog heart. This procedure decisively demonstrated...
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Arabic alphabet (section Ligatures)
letter combinations are written as ligatures (special shapes), notably lām-alif لا, which is the only mandatory ligature (the unligated combination لا...
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ß (category Latin-script ligatures)
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⟩...
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grammar, a ligature is a morpheme that links two elements. Albanian morphology#The linking clitic Ezāfe Interfix Miskito grammar#Ligature Tagalog grammar#Ligature...
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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...
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Tie (typography) (redirect from Ligature tie)
forms are called tie, double breve, enotikon or papyrological hyphen, ligature tie, and undertie. In the ALA-LC romanization for Russian, a tie symbol...
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IJ (digraph) (redirect from IJ (ligature))
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...
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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...
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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...
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Surgeon's knot (redirect from Ligature knot)
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...
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are spoken long. Typographically, the numero sign combines as a single ligature the uppercase Latin letter ⟨N⟩ with a usually superscript lowercase letter...
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Arabic script in Unicode (section Word ligatures)
letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters...
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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...
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Hwair (redirect from Hv ligature)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Digamma (section Conflation with the στ ligature)
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...
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Yori (kana) (redirect from Yori (ligature))
[joɾi] "from". ゟ is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of yo (よ) and ri (り), while is a combination (ligature) of the katakana graphs of yo (ヨ)...
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