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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inflect \In*flect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inflected}; p. pr & vb n. {Inflecting}.] [L. inflectere inflexum pref. in.- in + flectere to bend. See {Flexibl}, and cf {Inflex}.] 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ? --Sir I. Newton. 2. (Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb 3. To modulate, as the voice. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inflected \In*flect"ed\, a. 1. Bent; turned; deflected. 2. (Gram.) Having inflections; capable of or subject to inflection; inflective. {Inflected cycloid} (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See {Cycloid}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inflected adj 1: (grammar) showing alteration in form especially by addition of affixes; "`swam' and `boys' are inflected words"; "German is an inflected language" 2: having inflections to indicate tense [syn: {tensed}] 3: (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; "his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one" [ant: {uninflected}] 4: expressing grammatical relations by means of affixes or changes in vowels or consonants [syn: {inflectional}]
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