This term is part of our Unit 15: The Keyboard: Part II vocabulary list. Please note that pronunciations can vary slightly even in the same dialect.
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this key normally means "approximately" in mathematics; in Unix systems this character is used to represent a home directory
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"The student learned that his home directory was 'home/~johndoe' and his web directory was 'http://www.university.co.uk/students/johndoe'."