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) 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. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as i ...

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

Pitch accent A pitch-accent language, when spoken, has word accents in which one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a contrasting pitch ( linguistic tone) rather than by loudness ( ...

, 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) The fallacy of accent (also referred to as ''accentus'', from its Latin denomination, and misleading accent) is a type of ambiguity that arises when the meaning of a sentence is changed by placing an unusual prosodic stress, or when, in a written p ...

, 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 as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosod ...

, 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) 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 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 The Aeros Accent is a Ukrainian single-place, paraglider Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. T ...

, a paraglider *

Hyundai Accent The Hyundai Accent ( ko, 현대 엑센트), 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 ...

, 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, floodlights, recessed lights, torchère lamps, or track lighting. The brighter l ...

, light focused on a particular area or object *

Accent Records {{Short description, Belgian record label 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. ...

, 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 creat ...

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

Ac'cent Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is the 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 wi ...

, brand name for monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Speech and language

Music

Computers

Other uses

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