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A macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.
The hexaxial reference system is a diagram that is used to determine the heart's electrical axis in the frontal plane.. In electrocardiography, left axis deviation (LAD) is a condition wherein the mean electrical axis of ventricular contraction of the heart lies in a frontal plane direction between −30° and −90°.
In some areas, such as the Waikato, use of a macron is replaced by a double vowel instead (eg. Maaori instead of Māori), typically in areas where local Māori dialects prefer usage of a double vowel. [18] A diaeresis has sometimes been used (Mäori) in place of a macron where the technical capacity to apply a macron diacritic is limited. [19]
Macron (diacritic), a straight bar placed over a letter Macron below , a macron placed below a letter Overline , a horizontal line over two or more letters, sometimes mistakenly called a macron
A with macron and macron: Kienning Colloquial Romanized transliteration Ā̆ ā̆: A with macron and breve: Latin, Middle High German, Proto-Indo-European Ā̆́ ā̆́: A with macron, breve and acute: Latin Ā̈ ā̈: A with macron and diaeresis: Svan transliteration Ā̊ ā̊: A with macron and ring above: Avestan transliteration Ā̌ ā̌: A ...
Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters.It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.
The centre-left Socialists are seen as likely kingmakers in Macron's bid to form a new government, with sufficient parliamentary support to make sure it survives, unlike the last cabinet under ...
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies.Ā is used to denote a long A.Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for ...