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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Example Sentences

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

To represent the flats, Galin crosses the numerals with a line like the grave accent, and marks the sharps by a line like the acute accent.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

The French word "mouill�" appears, apparently randomly, both with and without the acute accent.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

Oxytone, oks′i-tōn, adj. having an acute sound: having the acute accent on the last syllable.—n. a word so accented.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various