CIRCUMFLEX
\sˈɜːkəmflˌɛks], \sˈɜːkəmflˌɛks], \s_ˈɜː_k_ə_m_f_l_ˌɛ_k_s]\
Definitions of CIRCUMFLEX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
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To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
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Moving or turning round; circuitous.
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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.
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Curved circularly; - applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
By Oddity Software
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A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
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To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
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Moving or turning round; circuitous.
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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.
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Curved circularly; - applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
By Noah Webster.
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To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
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Bent; turning round.
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A mark thus (^) to indicate accent, quantity, contraction, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Bent around, bowed, describing an arc of a circle, noting several anatomical structures-arteries, veins, nerves, and muscles.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A mark or character over a vowel or syllable, combining the rising and falling accent; in anat., applied to certain vessels and nerves from their course.
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To mark or pronounce with the circumflex.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Winding around. See table of nerves, under nerve, and table of arteries, under artery, and circumflex vein, under vein. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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