CIRCUMFLEX meaning: Accent mark shaped like caret

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word circumflex:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

circumflex: Merriam-Webster
circumflex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
circumflex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
circumflex: Collins English Dictionary
circumflex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
circumflex: Wiktionary
circumflex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
circumflex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
circumflex: Infoplease Dictionary
circumflex: Dictionary.com
circumflex: Online Etymology Dictionary
Circumflex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Circumflex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
circumflex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
circumflex: Rhymezone
Circumflex (m), circumflex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
circumflex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
circumflex: FreeDictionary.org
circumflex: Mnemonic Dictionary
circumflex: TheFreeDictionary.com
circumflex: Vocabulary.com
circumflex: Wordnik
circumflex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

circumflex: CCI Computer
circumflex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)

circumflex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Circumflex: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
circumflex: Medical dictionary
Circumflex: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

circumflex: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Circumflex: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

circumflex: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
▸ adjective:  Having a circumflex mark.
▸ adjective:  Curving around.
▸ verb:  To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To arch.

Opposite:

grave, acute, straight, unaccented

Phrases:

circumflex artery, circumflex accent, circumflex scapular, circumflex arteries, medial circumflex, more...

Adjectives:

left, posterior, external, deep, internal, lateral, medial, humeral, superficial, anterior, femoral

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