Acute

Acute may refer to:

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• An acute accent is a diacritic character.
• Acute, in geometry, refers to an angle that is less than ninety degrees.
• Acute, in medicine, refers to an illness of abrupt onset. This term refers to timescale of a disease and is often contrasted with subacute and chronic course. Examples:
• acute lymphoblastic leukemia
• acute pancreatitis
• acute abdomen
• severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
• Acute, in computing, is the name of a functional programming language for distributed computing with migration; see Acute programming language.