Definition of accent mark Accent mark
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What does accent mark mean?
WordNet
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| accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | ||
| accent | ||
| diacritic, diacritical mark a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | ||
| linguistic communication, language the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" | ||
| stress mark a mark indicating the stress on a syllable | ||
| acute, acute accent, ague a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | ||
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Wiktionary 
- accent mark (Noun)
A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked. - accent mark (Noun)
A mark used to represent specific stress on a note. - accent mark (Noun)
A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs. - accent mark (Noun)
A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y. - accent mark (Noun)
A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc. , as in 12' 27, meaning twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds. - accent mark (Noun)
A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10, meaning six feet ten inches.
