Circumflex

['sɜːkəmfleks] or ['sɝkəmflɛks]

Definition

(noun.) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality.

Checker: Patty--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.

(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.

(v. t.) To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.

(a.) Moving or turning round; circuitous.

(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.

Typed by Blanche