adj moving or turning round; circuitous.
2. circumflex ·vt to mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
3. circumflex ·noun a wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
4. circumflex ·adj curved circularly;
applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
5. circumflex ·noun a character, or accent, denoting in greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus ; and in latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked . ·see accent, ·noun, 2.