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inflection
- For inflection templates, see Wiktionary:Inflection templates.
English
Alternative forms
- inflexion
Etymology
From the English inflexion, from Middle French inflexion, from Latin inflexio, inflexionis (“a bending away from”); the spelling inflection is due to influence from correction.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?fl?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: in?flec?tion
Noun
inflection (countable and uncountable, plural inflections)
- (grammar) A change in the form of a word to express different grammatical categories.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- (optometry) diffraction
Synonyms
- flection, flexion
Hyponyms
- (grammar): conjugation
- (grammar): declension, declination
Related terms
- inflect
- inflected
Translations
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inflexure
English
Noun
inflexure (plural inflexures)
- An inflection; a bend or fold.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus
- the contrivance of nature is singular in the opening and shutting of bindweeds performed by five inflexures, distinguishable by pyramidal figures, and also different colours.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus
Latin
Participle
?nflex?re
- vocative masculine singular of ?nflex?rus
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