Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A character which binds consonants into a conjunct or some other form of visual combination which is prototypically a visual indication that the first consonant does not have an implicit vowel
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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History
Borrowed from Hindi हलंत (halant). The computing sense arises from the diacritic sense through the use in ISCII of the same computer character to act, depending on context and font capabilities, as either a visual diacritic or as a control character modifying a pair of consonants.
