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n. The act of inflecting or the state of being inflected.

n. Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice.

n. Grammar An alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense.

n. Grammar An affix indicating such a grammatical feature, as the -s in the English third person singular verb form speaks.

n. Grammar The paradigm of a word.

n. Grammar A pattern of forming paradigms, such as noun inflection or verb inflection.

n. A turning or bending away from a course or position of alignment.

n. A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.

n. A change in pitch or tone of voice.

n. A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.

n. A turning away from a straight course.

n. diffraction

n. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

n. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

n. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice.

n. The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.

n.

n. Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.

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

n. Same as Diffraction.

n. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected; a bend or bending.

n. In optics, the peculiar modification or deviation which light undergoes in passing the edges of an opaque body, usually attended by the formation of colored fringes: more commonly called diffraction.

n. In grammar, the variation of nouns, etc., by declension, and of verbs by conjugation; more specifically, variation in part by internal change, and not by added elements alone.

n. Modulation of the voice in speaking, or any change in the pitch or tone of the voice in singing.

n. In geometry, the place on a curve where a tangent moving along the curve by a rolling motion changes the direction of its turning, and begins to turn back; a stationary tangent.

n. In eccles. chanting, same as accent, 7.

n. a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

n. a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

n. deviation from a straight or normal course

n. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

"Years after 9/11, I learned in math class that the bottom-most point on a parabola is known as an inflection point - the point where the slope of the line goes from negative to positive."

speech    delivery    manner of speaking    difference    divergence    deviation    departure   

plane inflection   

diffraction   

conjugation    declension   

bend    fold    curve    turn    twist   

advection    affection    circumspection    collection    complexion    confection    connection    convection    correction    defection   

intonation    accent    cadence    pronunciation    emphasis    nuance    undertone    timbre    rhythm    tremor