Acute may refer to:
Language
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Acute accent
The acute accent (), ,
is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin alphabet, Latin, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabet, Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accen ...
, a diacritic used in many modern written languages
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Acute (phonetic), a perceptual classification
Science and mathematics
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Acute angle
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Acute triangle
** Acute, a leaf shape in the
glossary of leaf morphology
The following terms are used to describe leaf plant morphology, morphology in the description and taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade ...
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Acute (medicine)
In medicine, describing a disease as acute denotation, denotes that it is of recent wikt:onset#Noun, onset; it occasionally denotes a short wikt:duration#Noun, duration. The quantification (science), quantification of how much time constitutes "sho ...
, a disease that it is of short duration and of recent onset.
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Acute toxicity, the adverse effects of a substance from a single exposure or in a short period of time
See also
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Acutance, in photography, subjective perception of sharpness related to the edge contrast of an image
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Acuity (disambiguation)
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