What is "accent mark"

n. 1 (context linguistics English) 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. 2 (context music English) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note. 3 (context music English) A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs. 4 (context mathematics English) 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'''''. 5 (context geometry English) 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. 6 (context engineering English) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in '''6' 10''''', meaning six feet ten inches.

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