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Circumflex

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Noun

1. circumflex

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Circumflex

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noun
1. 
a mark (^) placed over a vowel to show that it is pronounced with rising and falling pitch, as in ancient Greek, as a long vowel rather than a short one, as in French, or with some other different quality
adjective
2. 
(of certain nerves, arteries, or veins) bending or curving around

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Circumflex

see synonyms of circumflex
noun
1. 
a mark (^ or ˜) used over certain vowel letters in the orthography of some languages to indicate a specific sound or quality, or used in certain systems of symbols for representing speech sounds: in modern use, as in French, the form (^) is the most common
: also circumflex accent
adjective
2. 
of, with, or marked by a circumflex
3. 
bending around; curved
verb transitive
4.  Rare
to bend around; curve
5. 
to write with a circumflex

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Circumflex

see synonyms of circumflex
n.
Any of several marks, especially ( ^ ), used over a vowel in certain languages or in phonetic keys to indicate quality of pronunciation.
adj.
1. Having this mark.
2. Curving around: a circumflex blood vessel.

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