Plural: accent marks
1. A mark used in writing or printing to indicate a specific sound value, stress, or pitch, to distinguish words otherwise identically spelled, or to indicate that an ordinarily mute vowel should be pronounced; a mark placed to the right of a letter or number and usually slightly above it: as a double prime
2. A symbol used to indicate musical stress; a mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate in which octave the note occurs
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