Meaning of CIRCUMFLEX in English

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Meaning of CIRCUMFLEX in English

• A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
• 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.
• To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
• Moving or turning round; circuitous.
• Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.

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