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Acute — may refer to: * Acute angle * Acute accent * Acute (medicine) * Acute (phonetic) * Acute (programming language) * The Acute a band … Wikipedia
Acute accent — The acute accent ( Unicode|´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic alphabet and Greek scripts.HistoryAn early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions … Wikipedia
accent mark — noun a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation • Syn: ↑accent • Derivationally related forms: ↑accentual (for: ↑accent), ↑accentuate (for: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
acute accent — noun a mark ( ) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation • Syn: ↑acute, ↑ague • Hypernyms: ↑accent, ↑accent mark * * * aˌcute ˈaccent [acute accent] … Useful english dictionary
Accent — Ac cent , n. [F. accent, L. accentus; ad + cantus a singing, canere to sing. See {Cant}.] 1. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Acute — A*cute , a. [L. acutus, p. p. of acuere to sharpen, fr. a root ak to be sharp. Cf. {Ague}, {Cute}, {Edge}.] 1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; opposed to {blunt} or {obtuse}; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. [1913 Webster] 2 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Acute angle — Acute A*cute , a. [L. acutus, p. p. of acuere to sharpen, fr. a root ak to be sharp. Cf. {Ague}, {Cute}, {Edge}.] 1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; opposed to {blunt} or {obtuse}; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
accent — [ak′sent΄; ] chiefly Brit [, ak′sənt; ] for v. [, ak′sent΄, ak sent′] n. [Fr < L accentus < ad , to + cantus, pp. of canere, to sing: a L rendering of Gr prosōidia (see PROSODY), orig. referring to the pitch scheme of Gr verse] 1. the… … English World dictionary
acute accent — n. a mark (´) used to indicate a) the quality or length of a vowel, as in French idée b) primary stress, as in Spanish olé c) any stress on a spoken sound or syllable, as in the scanning of verse * * * … Universalium
acute accent — ► NOUN ▪ a mark (´) placed over certain letters in some languages to indicate a feature such as altered sound quality (e.g. in fiancée) … English terms dictionary
