Floating accent

Floating accent

An accent or diacritical mark which is set separately from the affected character, so appears beside or nearby, but is stylistically discontinuous.

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floating accent

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An accent or diacritical mark which is set separately from the affected character, so appears beside or nearby, but is stylistically discontinuous.

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