Tilde in jQuery selector
<p>My understanding of the tilde's function in Javascript is that it performs a bitwise not operation (i.e. 1 becomes 0 and vice versa; 1000 becomes 0111). However, I've recently begun work on an existing project where my predecessor has included a lot of code like this: </p>

<pre><code>var iValuation = $('div[class~="iValuation"]');
</code></pre>

<p>Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the tilde in this instance is? I've not come across it before and haven't been able to find any reference to it online.</p>
