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accentual

/ak-sen-choo-uhl/US // ækˈsɛn tʃu əl //UK // (ækˈsɛntʃʊəl) //

适应性,适应性强,适应性的,适应性强的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to accent or stress.
    • : Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.

Examples

  • Sherwood Forest, for instance, is a killing field of accentual integrity.

  • An excellent example of accentual verse set to an already existing melody is seen in Li Bon Prouvençau.

  • There are sure to be foreign sounds or accentual peculiarities that do not fit the native phonetic habits.

  • A song is still extant in rhyme and loose accentual measure, written upon a victory of Clotaire II.

  • There is no such thing as quantity except so far as it is accentual also.

  • Unhappily those who agree in regarding the metre as purely accentual agree in little else.