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Accentuation :: Accentuation (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure..

Accentor :: Accentor (n.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

Perispomenon :: Perispomenon (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

Measure :: Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats..

Tilde :: Tilde (n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ?, /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y..

Accent :: Accent (n.) expressions in general; speech.

Accentuate :: Accentuate (v. t.) To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Accentless :: Accentless (a.) Without accent.

Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A word that has no accent.

Accentuation :: Accentuation (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..

Pronunciation :: Pronunciation (n.) The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation..

Accent :: Accent (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches..

Proclitic :: Proclitic (a.) Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''..

Properispomenon :: Properispomenon (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

Accentuate :: Accentuate (v. t.) To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.

Syncopation :: Syncopate (v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags..

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