The meaning of Circumflex
Circumflex – definition
nounA mark (^) placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate contraction, length, or a particular quality.
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The evidence is that originally the german keyboard produced circumflexes instead of umlauts but it…
adjectiveBending round something else; curved.
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Circumflex coronary arteries
nounA sign (^) over a letter, especially a vowel, that shows that it has a different pronunciation from the letter without a sign over it
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Word origin
late 16th century: from Latin circumflexus (from circum ‘around, about’ + flectere ‘to bend’), translating Greek perispōmenos ‘drawn around’.
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