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• noun End of a quotation.
• noun Transliteration of the soft sign (ь), indicating palatalization of preceding consonants.
• noun Transliteration of the glottal stop (hamza).
• noun A glottal stop in the orthography of numerous languages of America, Africa, and formally the Pacific. In most Polynesian languages, the convention has shifted to the okina <ʻ>.
• noun informal A substitute for the combining diacritic ʼ used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for ejective and other glottalized consonants.
• noun Indicating a possessive, with s (’s).
• noun Indicating the omission of letters.