Acute accent

The acute accent ( ) is a  diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. The word acute is derived from the Latin acutus ("sharp"), itself a loan translation of the Greek  (oxýs).
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Noun
1. a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
(synonym) acute, ague
(hypernym) accent, accent mark