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Encyclopedia entry: ACUTE ACCENT
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ACUTE ACCENT.
A right-inclined oblique stroke over a letter, as in French
é
(
café
,
élite
,
née
), transliterated Sanskrit
ś
(
śastra
,
Siva
), Spanish (to mark the vowels of stressed syllables, as in
nación
), and the rising tonal
ACCENT
of classical ...