meaning of circumflex
1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
2. 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. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
4. Moving or turning round; circuitous.
5. 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. a diacritical mark ^ placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
Related Words
circumflex | circumflex artery | circumflex artery of the thigh | circumflex femoral vein | circumflex humeral artery | circumflex iliac artery | circumflex iliac vein | circumflex scapular artery | circumflex vein | circumflexed | circumflexing | circumflexion |
