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 (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)