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Circumflex [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In grammar, an accent serving to note or distinguish a syllable of an intermediate sound between acute and grave. It is a kind of undulation in the voice, but not used in English.

Circumflex [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To mark or pronounce with the accent called a circumflex

Circumflex [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Moving or turning round; circuitous.

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

Circumflex [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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.

Circumflex [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.

Circumflexed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Circumflex

Circumflexing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Circumflex

Circumflexion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.