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circumflex

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Adjective, Noun
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cir=cum=flex

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun circumflex has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

circumflexn. [L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible.].
  •  A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.  Walker.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or Accent, n., 2.  [1913 Webster]
circumflexv. t. 
     To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.  Walker.  [1913 Webster]
circumflexa. [Cf. L. circumflexus, p. p.].
  •  Moving or turning round; circuitous.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

circumflex, n. & adj.
--n. (in full circumflex accent) a mark. placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate a contraction, length, or a special quality.
--adj. Anat. curved, bending round something else (circumflex nerve).

Etymology
L circumflexus (as CIRCUM-, flectere flex- bend), transl. of Gk perispomenos drawn around
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