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circumflex

Circumflex is defined as a curved mark (ˆ or ˜) that shows an accent or speech sound in certain languages.

(noun)

An example of a circumflex is the Spanish tilde (˜).

The definition of circumflex is marked with a symbol over a letter to indicate a speech sound, or something that is curved.

(adjective)

An example of a circumflex notation is a tilde (˜).
An example of something circumflex is a sharp turn in the road.

Circumflex means to write a curve over a letter to indicate a certain sound.

(verb)

An example of circumflex is to write a tilde (˜).

See circumflex in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a mark (^ or ˜) used over certain vowel letters in the orthography of some languages to indicate a specific sound or quality, or used in certain systems of symbols for representing speech sounds: in modern use, as in French, the form (^) is the most common

also circumflex accent

Origin: L circumflexus, pp. of circumflectere < circum, around + flectere, to bend

adjective