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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Circumflexed}; p. pr & vb n. {Circumflexing}.] To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. --Walker. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, a. [Cf. L. circumflexus p. p.] 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Circumflex \Cir"cum*flex\, n. [L. circumflexus a bending round, fr 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 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: circumflex n : a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
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