circumflex

1. n. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Source: opted

4. a. Moving or turning round; circuitous. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

6. n. a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality Source: wordnet

7. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker. Source: adambom

8. n:100 n. a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality Source: ecdict

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