circumflex

• adj. 弯曲的；有声调符号的
• n. 抑扬符号；长音符号
• vt. 标有抑扬音符；弯曲

circum-,圈，周围，-flex,弯，转，见flexible.因形如小圆圈而得名。

circumflex (n.)

1570s, from Latin (accentus) circumflexus, "bent around," past participle of circumflectere "to bend around," of a charioteer, "turn around" (from circum "around;" see circum-, + flectere "to bend;" see flexible); used as a loan-translation of Greek (prosodia) perispomenos (Dionysius of Halicarnassus), literally "drawn-around," with reference to shape.

1. We use a circumflex to indicate an operator.

我们用抑扬符表示一算符.

来自辞典例句