circumflexes in English
noun
1
a mark (^) placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate contraction, length, or pitch or tone.
The evidence is that originally the German keyboard produced circumflexes instead of umlauts but it was replaced by an English keyboard.
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1. Circumflex (plural Circumflexes) A diacritical mark placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant