Circumflex

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, n. [L. circumflexus a bending round,
     fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about;
     circum + flectere to bend. See {Flexible}.]
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     1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a
        fall and a rise on the same a syllable. --Walker.


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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Circumflexed};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Circumflexing}.]
     To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. --Walker.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, a. [Cf. L. circumflexus, p. p.]
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     1. Moving or turning round; circuitous. [R.] --Swift.
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     2. (Anat.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries
        of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of
        the shoulder, and to other parts.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  circumflex
       n : a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some
           languages to indicate a special phonetic quality