inflection
noun
- modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case
- to modulate the voice
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
noun
Etymology: From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.
- The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms 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.”
- The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
“The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.”
- The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
“English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.”
- The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
“Recite every inflection for each of these words.”
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A turning away from a straight course.
“inflection from the rules”
- Diffraction.