circumflex
Vowel roof mark
Circumflex refers to a diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over vowels in various languages, indicating a change in pronunciation, vowel length, or historical sound shift: French *hôtel*, Portuguese *vovô*.
In English, circumflex appears mainly in borrowed words.
The term also describes things that bend or curve around: the *circumflex artery* wraps around part of the heart.
Symbol marking insertions
- hatGarment for the head
- markVisible impression or sign
- glyphVisual form of character
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
grave · acute · breve · cedilla · diaeresis · umlaut · orthography · typography
Frequency of sound
- intonationPitch variation in speech
- toneQuality of sound
- risingAct of ascending
- fallingMoving downward freely
contour · stress · prosody · tonal · modulation · phonology · articulation · register
caret
Symbol marking insertions
tilde · grave · acute · breve · cedilla · diaeresis · umlaut · orthography · typography · vowel
pitch
Frequency of sound
- intonationPitch variation in speech
- toneQuality of sound
- risingAct of ascending
falling · contour · stress · prosody · tonal · modulation · phonology · articulation · register
artery
Oxygen-rich blood conduit
iliac · scapular · humeral · lateral · medial · branch · vessel · anatomy · dissection · surgical
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- symbolssymbols, runes, symbol, asterisks, national symbol
- toneshigh tone, low tone, mid tone, neutral tone, tone language
- Coronary ArteriesRCA
- Cath Labangioplasty, PCI, coronary stent, stent placement, stenting
- diacriticsacute, cedilla, breve, diaeresis, tilde
circumflexacute accent
Diacritic showing stress
grave accent · umlaut · breve · tilde · cedilla
circumflexstraight
Not curved or crooked
linear · undeviating · unbent · rectilinear · direct
accent, reflect, flexible, flex, reflex, inflexible, reflective, deflect, reflexes