* accent marks ( thus called because the acute, the grave and the circumflex accent were originally used to indicate different types of pitch accents, in the polytonic transcription of Greek )

** – circumflex accent

:* The Slovak alphabet uses the acute ( á é í ó ú ý ĺ ŕ ), caron ( č ď ľ ň š ť ž ), umlaut ( ä ) and circumflex accent ( ô ).

* French uses the grave accent ( accent grave ), the acute accent ( accent aigu ), the circumflex ( accent circonflexe ), the cedilla ( cédille ), and the diaeresis ( tréma ).

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

The acute and the circumflex accent indicate stress and vowel height, the grave accent indicates crasis, the tilde represents nasalization, and the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization.

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

In French, the name of Easter Pâques also derives from the Latin word but the s following the a has been lost and the two letters have been transformed into a â with a circumflex accent by elision.

These combinations are designed to be easy to remember, as the circumflex accent ( e. g. â ) is similar to a caret (^), printed above the 6 key ; the diaeresis ( e. g. ö ) is similar to the double-quote (") above 2 on the UK keyboard ; the tilde (~) is printed on the same key as the #.

The acute accent ( á, é, í, ó, ú ) or circumflex accent ( â, ê, î, ô, û, ŷ ) marks long vowels in the Elvish languages.

In monotonic orthography, the ancient version is written with an acute accent instead of a circumflex: μύ.

The shape of the circumflex was originally a combination of the acute and grave accents (^), as it marked a syllable contracted from two vowels: an acute-accented vowel and a non-accented vowel ( all non-accented syllables in Ancient Greek were once marked with a grave accent ).

* In Portuguese, stress is sometimes indicated explicitly with an acute accent ( for i, u, and open a, e, o ), or circumflex ( for close a, e, o ).

This version also listed eight accents ( acute accent ( ´ ), grave accent ( ` ), circumflex ( ^ ), caron ( ˇ ), macron ( ¯ ), tilde ( ˜ ), trema ( ¨ ), and a superscript dot (˙) and nine punctuation marks (?

* If the posterior descending artery ( PDA ) is supplied by the circumflex artery ( CX ), a branch of the left artery, then the coronary circulation can be classified as " left-dominant ".

* If the posterior descending artery ( PDA ) is supplied by both the right coronary artery ( RCA ) and the circumflex artery, then the coronary circulation can be classified as " co-dominant ".

These are often written using normal vector notation ( e. g. i, or ) rather than the circumflex notation, and in most contexts it can be assumed that i, j, and k, ( or and ) are versors of a Cartesian coordinate system ( hence a term of mutually orthogonal unit vectors ).

Serbian ⟨ и ⟩ with a circumflex can be unstressed as well ; in this case, it represent the genitive case of plural forms and is used to distinguish them from other similar forms.

A raised variant of the symbol can be found on some typewriters, where it is used to denote a circumflex in some languages, such as French and Portuguese.

Long vowels can be written either with a macron or a circumflex.

The circumflex ( l ' accent circonflexe ) ⟨ ˆ ⟩ can be used on any of the letters ⟨ a ⟩, ⟨ e ⟩, ⟨ i ⟩, ⟨ o ⟩, and ⟨ u ⟩.

The caret and circumflex are not to be confused with other chevron-shaped characters, such as or, which may occasionally be called carets too.

( though the circumflex could also be a triangle ).

* circumflex ( e. g. â ) on a, e, i, o, u, w, y, A, E, I, O, U, W, Y is generated by AltGr and 6, followed by the letter ;

** The ^ symbol is generated by a combination of Alt Gr + § same key as the 6 ; but, as opposed to the ^ symbol found to the right of the p key, it is not a dead key, and therefore does not generate the placing of a circumflex accent ;

In AmigaOS, dead keys are generated by pressing in combination with ( acute ), ( grave ), ( circumflex ), ( tilde ) or ( trema ) ( e. g., the combination followed by the key generates á and followed by generates é, whereas followed by generates à and followed by generates è ).

Near the fossa ovalis it is joined by the superficial epigastric, superficial iliac circumflex, and superficial external pudendal veins.

It then winds backward, in company with the posterior humeral circumflex artery, through a quadrilateral space bounded above by the teres minor, below by the teres major, medially by the long head of the triceps brachii, and laterally by the surgical neck of the humerus, and divides into an anterior, a posterior, and a collateral branch to the long head of the triceps brachii branch.

Long vowels are usually indicated in writing by a circumflex accent.

Stressed variants are sometimes ( in special texts, like dictionaries, or to prevent ambiguity ) graphically marked by acute, grave, double grave, or circumflex accent marks.

The deltoid is supplied by the posterior circumflex humeral artery.

* In the remainder of individuals, the AV node is still supplied by the posterior interventricular artery, but that artery is a branch of the left circumflex artery ; the coronary circulation of these individuals is considered left-dominant.

The circumflex, which is in standard Lithuanian, is replaced by an acute tone in Samogitian.

In the other 15 % of cases ( Left Dominant ), the PDA is given off by the left circumflex artery.

In other words, a double bypass means two coronary arteries are bypassed ( e. g. the left anterior descending ( LAD ) coronary artery and right coronary artery ( RCA )); a triple bypass means three vessels are bypassed ( e. g. LAD, RCA, left circumflex artery ( LCX )); a quadruple bypass means four vessels are bypassed ( e. g. LAD, RCA, LCX, first diagonal artery of the LAD ) while quintuple means five.

A circumflex ( ῆ ) represents high pitch on the first mora of a long vowel ( ée ).

In Microsoft Word, using the Control key with a key that usually resembles the diacritic ( e. g. for a circumflex ) acts as a dead key.

It is typically a dead key, which does not cause the carriage to advance and thus allows the following letter to strike the same spot ( below the circumflex ) on the paper.

* It uses the umlaut (¨), circumflex (^), acute (´), and accent (`) on most vowels when the full pronunciation key is given in the official spelling.

More superiorly, there is an anastomosis between the circumflex artery ( a branch of the left coronary artery ) and the right coronary artery in the atrioventricular groove.

The hook is usually written to the right of the circumflex in conventional Vietnamese orthography.