What's the difference between ascii and tilde?

Ascii


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Alt. of Ascians

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data is stored as an ASCII file on floppy disks, and protocol reports are printed.
  • (2) From the computer the data can be written to a printer and displayed as a chart or to an ASCII format file which can be used for analysis with statistical packages.
  • (3) The translation of mainframe-stored information in ASCII into spreadsheet format for use in Lotus 1-2-3 is explained.
  • (4) A complete system that operates directly on SYSTAT files is available for the IBM PC and compatibles; it includes a utility that converts ASCII files to SYSTAT format.
  • (5) In seven of these centers the local team was able to write a program for direct transmission of data, using standard sequential ASCII files.
  • (6) The data as an ASCII file is transferred via modem to mainframe computer, where another program transfers the information to a database management program.
  • (7) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
  • (8) The programs will be delivered by normal electronic mail; conversion mechanisms will transform binary files to ASCII to allow mail transfer.
  • (9) Drug-use data are down-loaded from the mainframe as an ASCII file on a floppy disk.
  • (10) The results are available immediately as printed reports and as ASCII files which are easily imported by most database, spreadsheet and statistics programs for further study.
  • (11) The calculated results are printed and stored in ASCII files which can be transferred to spreadsheets, databases, graphics or statistical programs.
  • (12) Sequences can be loaded from any ASCII format data bank or from keyboard.
  • (13) In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code, ASCII typewriter-style stuff like I used to see in my short year of computer science lessons (1982-83).
  • (14) These more highly developed and extensive version of early emoticons – the :-) and :-( built from ASCII characters and used in texts and emails – have opened up serious new possibilities.
  • (15) Output can be displayed on the console or redirected to an ASCII file.
  • (16) The three types of database tested include (1) genetic nomenclature, mutation sites and strain names, (2) surnames extracted from literature files and (3) a set of 1000 numeric ASCII strings.
  • (17) Spot analyses, video images, and quantitative elemental images may be obtained and results transferred in ASCII format to other computers.
  • (18) We found that we could read and interpret the ASCII string transmitted by the VM220; then started a search for a suitable multiplexing device through which we could manage all six of our VM220's with only one interface card.
  • (19) The system provides for data entry and retrieval, graphic image capture and analysis, and query and ASCII interface capabilities.
  • (20) All files are ASCII text, accessible to most word processing programs.

Tilde


Definition:

  • (n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, –, /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Variance components were estimated by the tilde-hat approximation to REML.
  • (2) The tilde-hat approximation proved to be incompatible with animal models but was used for sire-maternal grandsire analysis of 765,868 first lactation records.
  • (3) The bent DNA, which showed temperature-dependent retardation during polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was unique as its sequence was arranged as a symmetrical 'tilde' (approximately) structure.

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