CIRCUMFLEX

n. v. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or Accent, n., 2.

3.
v.

To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.

4.
a.

Moving or turning round; circuitous. [R.] Swift.

5.
a.

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