·adj Moving or turning round; circuitous.
II. Circumflex ·vt To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
III. Circumflex ·noun A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
IV. Circumflex ·adj Curved circularly;
— applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
V. Circumflex ·noun 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, ·noun, 2.