consisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ^,˘, or ~, placed over a vowel symbol in some languages to show that the vowel or the syllable containing it is pronounced in a certain way, as, in French, that the vowel so marked is of a certain quality and long, in Albanian, that the vowel is nasalized and stressed, or, in Classical Greek, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with a rise and fall in pitch.
pronounced with or characterized by the quality, quantity, stress, or pitch indicated by such a mark.
bending or winding around.
n. 名词 noun
a circumflex mark or accent.
v. 有主动词 verb
to bend around.
更多circumflex例句
It is a plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasnt any wings and is uncertain.
Plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hasnt any wings and is uncertain.
Of the four instances of the circumflex accent three exhibit the two notes and the falling pitch which we expect.
The character shown here as eo was printed as eo joined by a single circumflex.
The land, however, is much better ploughed; straight ridges everywhere adopted in place of the old circumflex of twenty years ago.