Usually means: Emphasis point in poetic meter.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ictus: Merriam-Webster
  2. ictus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ictus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ictus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ictus: Vocabulary.com
  6. ictus: Wordnik
  7. ictus: Wiktionary
  8. ictus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ictus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ictus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ictus: Dictionary.com
  12. Ictus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ictus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ictus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ictus: Rhymezone
  16. Ictus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ictus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ictus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. ictus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ictus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ICTUS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ictus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ictus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ictus: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ICTUS: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ictus)

noun:  The pulse.
noun:  (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
noun:  (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
noun:  (music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.

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