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Acute

speaker
speaker

Meaning

Adj

Brief,
, short.
High or shrill.
Intense;
; sharp.
Urgent.
In Botany:
With the
to form an
(at an
or base).
In Geometry:
Less than 90 degrees.
In Geometry:
Having all three
90 degrees.
In Linguistics:
Of an
or
:
higher than others.
In Phonology:
Sharp,
in the front of the
. (See Grave and
on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
In Medicine:
Of an
of
or
,
to
; this
does not
, unlike the common usage.
In Medicine:
Of a
,
to a
; this
also does not
severity.
In Orthography:
After a
of the
: having an
accent.

Noun

In Medicine:
A person who has the
form of a
, such as schizophrenia.
In Linguistics:
An
or
higher than others.
In Orthography & Diacritical marks:
An
(´).

Verb

In Phonetics:
To give an
to.
To make
; to
, to whet.
Sourced from
Wiktionary

Origin

acute
English
arrow
acutus
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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