accent circumflex

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English

Noun

accent circumflex (plural accents circumflex)

  1. (rare) A circumflex accent.
    • 2004 [2003], Gunther Kress, Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies), London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:
      I felt, and am still convinced, that this approach is both more useful and more defensible than the approach that sees punctuation as a vacuous enterprise which must nevertheless be taught, learned and displayed, by rôte — with or without the accent circumflex.

Romanian

Noun

accent circumflex n (plural accente circumflex)

  1. circumflex accent