ALL meanings of accent mark
ac·cent mark
A a - noun accent mark a mark used to indicate an accent, stress, etc., as for pronunciation or in musical notation. Compare diacritic (def 1). 1
- noun accent mark (linguistics) 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. 0
- noun accent mark (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note. 0
- noun accent mark (music) A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs. 0
- noun accent mark (mathematics) 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''. 0
- noun accent mark (geometry) 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. 0
- noun accent mark (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10'', meaning six feet ten inches. 0