Accent may refer to:

Speech and language

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

, way of pronunciation particular to a speaker or group of speakers * Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase ** Pitch accent, 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 ''diacriti ...

, a mark added above, on top of, or below a letter * Accent (fallacy), a logical fallacy related to reification

Music

* Accent (music), an emphasis placed on a note *

Accent (band) Accent (Акцент) is Belarusian heavy metal band. Early years Accent was founded in 1986 by Michael Brusovanik, former guitarist of Belarusian hard rock band Отражение (en: Reflection), and Andrey Hmelnitsky. Hiatus, reunion a ...

, Belarusian heavy metal band *

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 band during the late 1950s. Its only popular song came out during the "sack" dress fad, and was entitled "Wiggle, Wiggle". T ...

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

Computers

* Accent (programming language), an interpreted programming language *

Accent kernel Accent was an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Accent was developed as a follow-on to the Aleph kernel developed at the University of Rochester, fixing several of its problems and re-targeting its hardware su ...

, an operating system kernel

Other uses

* Aeros Accent, a paraglider * Hyundai Accent, car produced by Hyundai Motor Company * Accent lighting, light focused on a particular area or object * Accent Records, a record label * ACCENT Speakers Bureau, a student-run organization at the University of Florida * Ac'cent, brand name for monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Speech and language

Music

Computers

Other uses

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