inverted caret

English

Noun

inverted caret (plural inverted carets)

1. A caret (^) that has been inverted.
   • 1823, George Jackson, Two New and Efficient Systems of Stenography, page 28:

     Learners employing the vowels must not use either the inverted caret v (a) or the dot, (e or i) except as vowels.

2. (now only informally) A háček.
   • 1896, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen’s Magazine, XXI, page 288:

     Bohemian, as we call it, or Cesky, as they write it (with another inverted caret over the C).