Look up: circumflex

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   circumflex
   [n] - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
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   Circumflex
   Circumflex: Curved like a bow. In anatomy, circumflex describes a structure that bends around like a bow. For example, the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery. In linguistics, a circumflex is a caret-shaped mark (^) used over a vowel to indicate the pronunciation, length or the omission of a letter formerly pronounced. In French, it is ca ...
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   Circumflex
   Cir'cum·flex noun [ Latin circumflexus a bending round, from circumflectere , circumflexum , to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible .] 1. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker. 2. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the ...
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   Circumflex
   Cir'cum·flex transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Circumflexed ; present participle & verbal noun Circumflexing .] To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.
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   Circumflex
   Cir'cum·flex adjective [ Confer Latin circumflexus , past participle ] 1. Moving or turning round; circuitous. [ R.] Swift. 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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   circumflex
   Describing an arc of a circle or that which winds around something; denotes several anatomical structures: arteries, veins, nerves, and muscles. ... Origin: circum-+ L. Flexus, to bend ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   circumflex
   noun a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
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   Circumflex
   The `circumflex` (`ˆ`) (often mistakenly also called a `caret`, from a non-diacritical sign with similar shape (^); also `hat` or `uppen`) is a diacritic mark used in written Croatian, French, Frisian, Esperanto, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Vietnamese, Romanized Japanese, Welsh, Portuguese, Italian, Afrikaans, Turkish and other languages. It received its English name from Latin `circumflexus` (`bent about`)`a translation of the Greek Ã?€ÎµÃ?Â?ιÃ?Æ’...
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   circumflex
   (sur´kәm-fleks) curved like a bow.
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    Circumflex
    • (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. • (a.) Moving or turning round; circuitous. • (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...
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    circumflex
    circumflex (s), circumflexes (pl) 1. A diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality. 2. In some languages, a mark (^) placed above a letter to indicate a specific pronunciation, usually different from that of the unaccented letter, or a contraction. Circumflexes may be written over vowels as...
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    circumflex
    Describing an arc of a circle or that which winds around something; denotes several anatomic structures: arteries, veins, nerves, and muscles. [circum- + L. flexus, to bend]
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