accent mark

noun
a mark used to indicate an accent, stress, etc., as for pronunciation or in musical notation. Compare diacritic ( def 1 ).

Origin:
1885–90

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accent mark

noun
a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation [syn: accent
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