# Acute

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**Acute** may refer to:

## Language

- [Acute accent](/source/Acute_accent), a diacritic used in many modern written languages
- [Acute (phonetic)](/source/Acute_(phonetic)), a perceptual classification

## Science and mathematics

- [Acute angle](/source/Acute_angle) - [Acute triangle](/source/Acute_triangle) - Acute, a leaf shape in the [glossary of leaf morphology](/source/Glossary_of_leaf_morphology#acute)
- [Acute (medicine)](/source/Acute_(medicine)), a disease that it is of short duration and of recent onset. - [Acute toxicity](/source/Acute_toxicity), the adverse effects of a substance from a single exposure or in a short period of time

## See also

- [Acutance](/source/Acutance), in photography, subjective perception of sharpness related to the edge contrast of an image
- [Acuity (disambiguation)](/source/Acuity_(disambiguation))

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