Circumflex

Cir´cum`flex

n.	1.
	1.	A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
	2.	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.
v. t.	1.	To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. [imp. & p. p. Circumflexed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumflexing .]
a.	1.
	1.	Moving or turning round; circuitous.
	2.	(Anat.) Curved circularly; - applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.

Noun

circumflex - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality