Accent may refer to:

Speech and language

Accent (sociolinguistics) In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical acce ...

, way of pronunciation particular to a speaker or group of speakers *

Accent (phonetics) In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or Sentence (linguistics), sentence. That emphasis is typically caused ...

, prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase **

Pitch accent A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (music), pitch (tone (linguistics), linguistic tone) rather than by vol ...

, prominence signaled primarily by pitch *

Accent (poetry) In English poetry, accent refers to the stressed syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an "open class" of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or because of "contrastive" or "rhetoric ...

, placement of prominent syllables in scansion *

Diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...

, a mark added above, on top of, or below a letter *

Fallacy of accent The fallacy of accent (also known as ''accentus'', from its Latin denomination, and misleading accent) is a verbal fallacy that reasons from two different vocal readings of the same written words. In English, the fallacy typically relies on prosodi ...

, a logical fallacy related to reification

Music

Accent (music) In music, an accent is an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord, either because of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody o ...

, an emphasis placed on a note *

The Accents The Accents was used as a band name by several different groups from 1956 through 1969. The most successful was a doo-wop Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American ...

, American doo-wop group * Ecclesiastical accent, the simplest style of plainchant

Computers

Accent (programming language) Rational Synergy is a software tool that provides software configuration management (SCM) capabilities for all artifacts related to software development including source code, documents and images as well as the final built software executable and ...

, an interpreted programming language *

Accent kernel Accent is an operating system kernel, most notable for being the predecessor to the Mach kernel. Originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Accent was influenced by the Aleph kernel developed at the University of Rochester. Acce ...

, an operating system kernel

Other uses

Aeros Accent Aeros is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer founded by a group of ex-Antonov engineers in the early 1990s to build hang gliders. It is located in Kyiv.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 41. Pag ...

, a paraglider *

Hyundai Accent The Hyundai Accent (), or Hyundai Verna (현대 베르나) is a subcompact car produced by Hyundai. In Australia, the first generation models carried over the Hyundai Excel name used by the Accent's predecessor. The Accent was replaced in 2000 ...

, car produced by Hyundai Motor Company *

Accent lighting Accent lighting focuses light on a particular area or object. It is often used to highlight art or other artifacts. Common types of accent lights include wall sconces, floodlight A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial l ...

, light focused on a particular area or object *

Accent Records Accent Records is a Belgian record label started in 1978 by Adelheid and Andreas Glatt, releasing classical music from between 1500 AD and the 20th century, but primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries. Artists having recorded for Accent Reco ...

, a record label *

ACCENT Speakers Bureau ACCENT Speakers Bureau is the student government-run speakers' bureau of the University of Florida. It claims to be the largest student-run speakers' bureau in the United States. The organization is a student government agency. ACCENT was crea ...

, a student-run organization at the University of Florida *

Ac'cent Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is a sodium salt of glutamic acid. MSG is found naturally in some foods including tomatoes and cheese in this glutamic acid form. MSG is used in cooking as a flavor enhancer with a ...

, brand name for monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Speech and language

Music

Computers

Other uses

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