What is this ( ^ ) character called?

Answer 1

I use it for eyebrows on my faces. <:-)

Answer 2

It is called circumflex or caret.

A circumflex is a vowel marking. Dictionary.com: consisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ^, ˘, or ~, placed over a vowel symbol in some languages to show that the vowel or the syllable containing it is pronounced in a certain way, as, in French, that the vowel so marked is of a certain quality and long, in Albanian, that the vowel is nasalized and stressed, or, in Classical Greek, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with a rise and fall in pitch.

Caret is a proofreading symbol (^) used to indicate where something is to be inserted in a line of printed or written matter.

I have also seen ^ used to indicate raising to a power with a font that doesn't allow superscripts.

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Answer 3

above the 6
(^) = caret

Caret is the name for the symbol ^ in ASCII and some other character sets. Its Unicode code point is U+005E, and its ASCII code in hexadecimal is 5E. Strictly speaking, the caret character in common use is actually referred to in the Unicode standard as the "CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"; the Unicode character named "CARET" is actually a distinct, much less common character, at code point U+2038 (‸). There is also a combining mark, U+0302 "COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT", which is used when a circumflex accent is to be added as a diacritical mark to another letter. However, the term "caret" is most frequently used to refer to the first of these.
The caret was originally used, and continues to be, in handwritten form as a proofreading mark to indicate where a punctuation mark, word or phrase should be inserted in a document. (The term comes from the Latin caret, "it lacks", from 'carēre', to lack; to be separated from; to be free from.) The caret symbol is written below the line of text for a line-level punctuation mark such as a comma, or above for a higher character such as an apostrophe; the material to be inserted may be placed inside the caret, in the margin, or above the line.
The caret is also found on some typewriters, where it is used to denote a circumflex accent in languages which require it, such as French.
In statistics, the caret is used to denoted an estimator or an estimated value, as opposed to its theoretical counterpart.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the caret represents a low-mid back vowel.
In mathematics and physics, a caret appearing above a letter indicates a unit vector (a vector with a magnitude of 1).
In mathematics, a caret can signify an exponent (3^5 for 35) where superscript is difficult or impossible (such as on some graphing calculators.
Most recently, the caret has found use as a symbol in computer programming languages. This usage can be traced back to ALGOL 60, which expressed the exponentiation operator as an upward-pointing arrow, intended to evoke the superscript notation common in mathematics. The up-arrow character was codified as character 5E in the original 1963 version of the ASCII standard; however, this was a short-lived placement. The 1965 ECMA-6 standard replaced the up-arrow with the currently-used caret (and the left-arrow with the underscore); two years later, the second revision of ASCII followed suit, due to pressure from international standards committees requiring the character's presence as a diacritical mark (the circumflex).
In logic the caret is used as a propositional operator to symbolize logical conjunction otherwise known as an "and" statement.
The term caret is also sometimes used in graphical user interface terminology where it means a text insertion point indicator, frequently represented by a blinking vertical bar. In this context, it may be used interchangeably with the word cursor, although the latter term is often reserved for a mouse pointer.

Answer 4

It's an insert mark.

Example: You are proofreading something and you find the author has written, "John lovd to water ski on Lake Placid."

You would use the ^ and the letter "e" between the lov and the d to show the author that you want the "e" inserted there.

Answer 5

It's called a 'carat'. (sounds like "carrot").

Answer 6

It is a caret.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret

Answer 7

carrot

Answer 8

carat

Answer 9

carrot.

Answer 10

( ^ ) this is an erected nipple if you ask me.. ( . ) this is one that's not erected..