EGAVE

inflection

About 1.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
    In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
  2. noun Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class.
    The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
  3. noun An affix representing a given variation.
    English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
  4. noun Any specific morphological form of a particular word, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
    Recite every inflection for each of these words.
  5. noun A change in pitch or tone of voice.
  6. noun A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
  7. noun A turning away from a straight course.
    inflection from the rules
  8. noun Diffraction.

Similar words

inflexion prosody flection flex flexion bend bending tipping turning tone

Often followed by

of point in and points is on to at

Word family

inflections

Save “inflection” to learn later