Thesaurus: circumflex

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1. n. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
2. n. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.
3. v. t. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
4. a. Moving or turning round; circuitous.
5. a. Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
6. n. a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
7. 1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or Accent, n., 2. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker. 1. Moving or turning round; circuitous. [R.] Swift. 2. (Anat.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
8. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.
9. n:100 n. a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality