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Definitions for circumflex
ˈsɜr kəmˌflɛkscir·cum·flex

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. circumflexnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. circumflexnoun

    A diacritical mark: u02C placed over a vowel in certain languages to change its pronunciation; also used in combination with certain consonants in Esperanto to create additional letters.

  2. circumflexadjective

    Having this mark.

    u00EA is e circumflex.

  3. circumflexadjective

    Curving around

    The circumflex coronary artery

  4. Etymology: From circumflexus, which is the past participle of and a calque of.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Circumflexnoun

    An accent used to regulate the pronunciation of syllables, including or participating the acute and grave.

    Etymology: circumflexus, Lat.

    The circumflex keeps the voice in a middle tune, and therefore in the Latin is compounded of both the other. William Holder.

Wikipedia

  1. Circumflex

    The circumflex (◌̂) is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin: circumflexus "bent around"—a translation of the Greek: περισπωμένη (perispōménē). The circumflex in the Latin script is chevron-shaped (◌̂), while the Greek circumflex may be displayed either like a tilde (◌̃) or like an inverted breve (◌̑). For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin alphabet, precomposed characters are available. In English, the circumflex, like other diacritics, is sometimes retained on loanwords that used it in the original language (for example, crème brûlée). In mathematics and statistics, the circumflex diacritic is sometimes used to denote a function and is called a hat operator. A free-standing version of the circumflex symbol, ^, has become known as caret and has acquired special uses, particularly in computing and mathematics. The original caret, ‸, is used in proofreading to indicate insertion.

ChatGPT

  1. circumflex

    A circumflex is a diacritic, or mark placed above a vowel to symbolize different pronunciation or lexical usage in certain languages. It is represented by the symbol (^), and is used in French, Portuguese, and other languages. In English phonetics, it is used to indicate a stress or pitch accent or the lengthening of a vowel sound. The term "circumflex" is also used in anatomy to describe anything in the shape of the aforementioned mark (^).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Circumflexnoun

    a wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable

  2. Circumflexnoun

    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

  3. Circumflexverb

    to mark or pronounce with a circumflex

  4. Circumflexadjective

    moving or turning round; circuitous

  5. Circumflexadjective

    curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts

  6. Etymology: [L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible.]

Wikidata

  1. Circumflex

    The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin circumflexus 'bent around' – a translation of the Greek περισπωμένη. The circumflex in the Latin script is chevron-shaped, while the Greek circumflex may be displayed either like a tilde or like an inverted breve. In English the circumflex, like other diacritics, is sometimes retained on loanwords that used it in the original language. The diacritic is also used in mathematics, where it is typically called a hat or roof.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of circumflex in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of circumflex in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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