Tilde

>

Alternatively referred to as the squiggly or twiddle, the tilde is a character ( ~ ) found on computer keyboards below the escape or ESC key and on the same key as the back quote that resembles a squiggly line. The graphic gives an representation of how the tilde may appear.

For English keyboards the tilde is created by holding down the Shift key and pressing the tilde key, which shares is on the same key as the back quote ( ` ). Below are a few examples of how and when the tilde is used.

Also see: Keyboard terms