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Webster 1913 Edition
Inflect
In-flect′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inflected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inflecting
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inflect
INFLECT'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bend; to turn from a direct line or course. Are not the rays of the sun reflected, refracted and inflected by one and the same principle?
2.
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.3.
To modulate, as the voice.Definition 2024
inflect
inflect
English
Verb
inflect (third-person singular simple present inflects, present participle inflecting, simple past and past participle inflected)
- (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
- (transitive, music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
- (transitive, grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
Synonyms
- (to bend or curve inwards): inbend
Translations
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