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Acuteness
Acuteness A*cute"ness, n.
1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the
acuteness of an angle.
2. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen;
keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the
senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we
perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness
of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness
interested in bringing it to a successful close.
--Sir W.
Scott.
3. Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
4. (Med.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to
a crisis.
Syn: Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness;
subtlety; sharp-wittedness.
Meaning of acuteness from wikipedia
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acute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Acute may
refer to:
Acute accent, a
diacritic used in many
modern written languages Acute (phonetic)...
- available. An
early precursor of the
acute accent was the apex, used in
Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. The
acute accent was
first used in
French in...
- In photography,
acutance describes a
subjective perception of
visual acuity that is
related to the edge
contrast of an image.
Acutance is
related to the...
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consonants are
highly likely to
preserve their acuteness/graveness
through sound change; and
changes between acute and
grave can
often be well cir****scribed...
- In medicine,
describing a
disease as
acute denotes that it is of
recent onset; it
occasionally denotes a
short duration. The
quantification of how much...
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Acute leukemia or
acute leukaemia is a
family of
serious medical conditions relating to an
original diagnosis of leukemia. In most cases,
these can be...
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Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a
sudden inflammation of the pancreas.
Causes include a
gallstone impacted in the
common bile duct or the
pancreatic duct,...
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Acute medicine, also
known as
acute internal medicine (AIM), is a
specialty within internal medicine concerned with the
immediate and
early specialist...
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Acute bronchitis, also
known as a
chest cold, is short-term
bronchitis –
inflammation of the
bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) of the lungs. The...
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Acute toxicity describes the
adverse effects of a
substance that
result either from a
single exposure or from
multiple exposures in a
short period of...
