Inflect
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To bend; to turn from a direct line or course.
2. Are not the rays of the sun reflected,
refracted and
inflected by one and the same principle?
3. In grammar, to vary a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to
conjugate, as a verb.
Inflect
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to
incline, to
deflect; to curve; to bow.
2. To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to
conjugate, as a verb.
Inflected
[Participle passive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Bent or turned from a direct line or course; as an inflected ray of light; varied in termination.
Inflected
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Inflecting
[Participle present tense]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Bending or turning from its course; varying in termination;
modulating, as the voice.
1. The act of bending or turning from a direct line or course.
2. In
optics, a property of light by which its rays, when they approach a body, are bent towards it or from it.
5. More commonly inflection gives significance to tones.
6. Point of inflection in geometry, the point where a curve begins to bend the contrary way.
2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
3. A slide,
modulation, or
accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
4. The variation or change which words undergo to mark case,
gender, number, comparison, tense, person,
mood, voice, etc.
5. Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
Having the power of bending; as the inflective quality of the air.
2.
Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to
inflection.
