acute accent

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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

Paroxytone, par-ok′si-tōn, adj. having the acute accent on the last syllable but one.—n. a word with an acute accent on the second last syllable.—v.t. to accent a word in this way.

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

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

In dictionaries, spelling books, and the like, the acute accent is used to designate the syllable which receives the chief stress of voice.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster