macron
Kelime Anlamı :

1. uzatma işareti.
2. uzun ünlü belirtkesi.
3. (isim) uzatma işareti.
4. sesli harfin uzun olduğunu göstermek için üzerine konulan işareti.
Tanımlar :
1. A diacritical mark placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound or phonetic value in pronunciation, such as (ā) in the word make.
2. the horizontal mark ( ¯ ) used to indicate a stressed or long syllable in a foot of verse.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (¯) placed over any of various letters. it usually is used to indicate that the pronunciation of the vowel is long, in mandarin pinyin (chinese), it indicates the first tone, e.g. chūzūchē.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, ā, in dāme; ē, in sēam, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. in grammar, a short horizontal line placed over a vowel to show that it is long in quantity, or, as in english, has a “long” sojnd: opposed to the breve, or mark of a short vowel.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.