Definition of inflection

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Inflection (n.) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting..

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Inflective :: Inflective (a.) Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison..
Heteroclite :: Heteroclite (n.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension..
Deflectionization :: Deflectionization (n.) The act of freeing from inflections.
Conjugation :: Conjugation (n.) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
Level :: Level (a.) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
Masculine :: Masculine (a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender..
Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..
Declension :: Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases..
Noninflectional :: Noninflectional (a.) Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection..
Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Acute :: Acute (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
Inflexion :: Inflexion (n.) Inflection.
Flectional :: Flectional (a.) Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection..
Inflectional :: Inflectional (a.) Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection..
Theme :: Theme (n.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem..
Parisyllabical :: Parisyllabical (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
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