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A tilde symbol is a wavy line ( ~ ) that can be used as a symbol or appears on the head of an alphabet or symbol, $\tilde{p}$. You may ask how one can write a tilde symbol in LaTeX? short answer: writing a tilde in LaTeX over a letter can be achieved easily using the command \tilde{symbol} or as a symbol within the text (or math mode) using \textasciitilde (or $\sim$), respectively. In this post, we will present various methods to include a tilde symbol in our LaTeX document. Let start with a tilde over a letter or a symbol! 1. Tilde over letter A tilde over a letter can be obtained using the command \tilde{letter}, here is an illustrative example: % Simple tilde over text \documentclass{article} \begin{document} These are alphabets with a tilde symbol, $\tilde{a}$, $\tilde{A}$, $\tilde{p}$. \end{document} compiling this code yields the following output: $ \text{These are alphabets with a tilde symbol}, \tilde{a}, \tilde{A}, \tilde{p}. $ However, this command does not change with respect to its content, for example $ \tilde{ab}$. The next section addresses the wide tilde symbol in LaTeX. 2. Long tilde in LaTeX To remedy the above issue, we can use \widetilde command instead of \tilde{}. Here is an illustrative example: % wide tilde over text \documentclass{article} \begin{document} These is an expression with a wide tilde over it: $\widetilde{ab}$. \end{document} compiling this code yields: $ \text{These is an expression with a wide tilde over it: } \widetilde{ab} $ 3. How to type tilde as a symbol (~) in LaTeX A tilde in LaTeX is a special symbol that when using it will force a non-breaking space between the left and right text. To create a tilde in LaTeX, we can use one of the following commands: Math mode: we can use $\sim$ commandText mode: we can use \textasciitilde command or \texttildelow. $ \text{This is obtained by \sim command: } \sim $ and here is the tilde symbol obtained by text-mode commands: At this level, we reached the end of this tutorial, for more LaTeX symbols, check this post!