accent mark (English, noun)
expansion: accent mark (plural accent marks)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A diacritical mark or character used in writing to indicate the place of stress (spoken accent), or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked (such as long vowel versus short vowel).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any diacritical mark.
tags: broadly
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prime symbol.
Forms:
form: accent marks
tags: plural