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Circumflex adj.

Moving or turning round; circuitous. (R.)

(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.

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Etymology of 'Circumflex'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circumflex" Quotes from Famous Books

... not chanted but declaimed, now rapid and now slow. The side of the choir which Durtal saw made all the vowels sharp and short letters; the other, on the contrary, altered them all into long letters and seemed to cap all the Os with a circumflex accent. It might be said that one side had the pronunciation of the South, the other that of the North; thus chanted, the office became strange, and ended by rocking like an incantation, and soothing the soul which fell asleep in the rolling ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Words linked to "Circumflex" : circumflex artery, diacritical mark, circumflex scapular artery, diacritic, circumflex humeral artery, circumflex artery of the thigh, circumflex vein, circumflex femoral vein, circumflex iliac vein