acuteness
尖锐性,敏锐性,敏锐度,尖锐度
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Definitions
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- : sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow;an acute pain.
- : extremely great or serious; crucial; critical: an acute shortage of oil.
- : brief and severe.
- : sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception: an acute observer.
- : extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions: acute eyesight.
- : sharp at the end; ending in a point.
- : Geometry. less than 90°. containing only acute angles.
- : consisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ´, placed over vowel symbols in some languages to show that the vowels or the syllables they are in are pronounced in a certain way, as in French that the quality of an e so marked is close; in Hungarian that the vowel is long; in Spanish that the marked syllable bears the word accent; in Ibo that it is pronounced with high tones; or in classical Greek, where the mark originated, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with raised pitch: the acute accent; an acute e.
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Examples
Research has shown that antiviral medications administered shortly after the onset of symptoms were found to be effective against acute viral infections such as flu.
If you’re rehabbing an acute injury, check in with a physical therapist before beginning this routine.
Candia said the older brother was suffering from acute heat stroke after spending two hours in the car’s trunk.
Both parties united to stop Metzger from winning in November, with the national Democratic chair calling his primary victory “an acute embarrassment.”
The act of foraging, a completely unchanged activity in a pandemic, possesses the acute ability to make me forget about the state of things entirely.
His perception was still exceptionally alert, its acuteness left over, apparently, from the earlier days of pain and jealousy.
But I have enough mental acuteness to see that the religion of Jeremy Taylor was cowardly, and gloomy, and untrue.
Among the former are acuteness and quickness of vision, the power of grasping complex subjects, and a good memory.
Her loss of sight had been more than compensated by an extraordinary acuteness of mental vision.
That is the way of female intellects when they are good; nothing equals their acuteness, and their rapidity is almost excessive.