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acute accent definition

acute accent

a mark (´) used to indicate
  1. the quality or length of a vowel, as in French idée
  2. primary stress, as in Spanish olé
  3. any stress on a spoken sound or syllable, as in the scanning of verse

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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