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'''Acute''' may refer to:
==Language==
* [[Acute accent]], a diacritic used in many modern written languages
* [[Acute (phonetic)]], a perceptual classification

==Science and mathematics==
* [[Acute angle]]
** [[Acute triangle]]
** Acute, a leaf shape in the [[glossary of leaf morphology#acute|glossary of leaf morphology]]
* [[Acute (medicine)]], a disease that it is of short duration and of recent onset.
** [[Acute toxicity]], the adverse effects of a substance from a single exposure or in a short period of time

==See also==
* [[Acutance]], in photography, subjective perception of sharpness related to the edge contrast of an image
* [[Acuity (disambiguation)]]
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