acute accent

British  

noun

1. the diacritical mark (´), used in the writing system of some languages to indicate that the vowel over which it is placed has a special quality (as in French été ) or that it receives the strongest stress in the word (as in Spanish hablé )

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acute accent

When they call a charge, there’s no acute accent over the “e.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2016

Exelrod has eyebrows like an owl with the ends sticking up: an acute accent on the left and a grave accent on the right.

From The Verge ● Mar. 26, 2015

Barytone, bar′i-tōn, n. a deep-toned male voice between bass and tenor: a singer with such a voice: in Greek, applied to words not having an acute accent on the last syllable.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

I remember distinctly that i with the acute accent meant the square root of minus one—and stood for 'imaginary' on the face of it.

From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy

The acute accent on vowels indicates a stressed syllable, which is also raised in pitch.

From Mohave Pottery by Michaell J. Harner

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