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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
circumflex
n 1: a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some
languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
circumflex /sirkumflɛks/
circumflex
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