Circumflex

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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

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.