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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
acute accent

▶noun a mark (ˊ) placed over certain letters in some languages to indicate a feature such as altered sound quality (e.g. in fiancée).

'acute accent' also found in these Oxford entries:

acute - oxytone - paroxytone

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