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 Definitions of acute accent  [əˈkyut]  

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Definition of 'acute accent' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) acute accent
a mark (´) placed over a vowel, esp. to indicate that the vowel is close or tense, as in French é, or long, as in Hungarian, or that the vowel or the syllable it is in bears the word stress, as in Spanish, or is pronounced with raised pitch, as in Classical Greek.
Definition of 'acute accent' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) acute accent, acute, ague
a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

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