The circumflex, in fact, is actually a caret, or sign of omission, denoting an s that was once written in die word but that was no longer sounded.
The caret is also now used to indicate a superscript in typesetting.
The words may be spelled the same, such as "rose" (flower) and "rose" (past tense of rise), or differently, such as "carat", "caret", and "carrot", or "to", "two", and "too".
The carets denoting dimensionless quantities in this section will now be omitted for simplicity, unless otherwise specified.
In this formula round brackets indicate optional elements, and the caret indicates required sequence.
Is it not sensible that, in off-road conditions, parents or carets should decide whether the circumstances merit the wearing of helmets?
They are often, although not always, distinguished from the respective elements by a caret.
Caret earns $425,000, but his contract calls for raises of $25,000 in each of the next two years.
