In lexicography, the latter kind of tilde and the swung dash, ⁓, are used in dictionaries to indicate the omission of the entry word. These are encoded in Unicode with many precomposed characters as well as individually at U+0303 ◌̃ COMBINING TILDE and U+007E ~ TILDE (as a spacing character), and there are additional similar characters for different roles. The tilde has since been applied to a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right. Medieval European charters written in Latin are largely made up of such abbreviated words with suspension marks and other abbreviations only uncommon words were given in full. This saved on the expense of the scribe's labour and the cost of vellum and ink. Such a mark could denote the omission of one letter or several letters. Thus, the commonly used words Anno Domini were frequently abbreviated to A o Dñi, with an elevated terminal with a suspension mark placed over the "n". It was originally written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribal abbreviation, or "mark of suspension" and "mark of contraction", shown as a straight line when used with capitals. 4.3.3.1 Unicode and Shift JIS encoding of wave dash.
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