Circumflex

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.