Definitions for inflection
ɪnˈflɛk ʃənin·flec·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. inflection, inflexionnoun

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

2. prosody, inflectionnoun

   the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

3. inflection, flection, flexionnoun

   deviation from a straight or normal course

4. modulation, inflectionnoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. inflectionnoun

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

2. inflectionnoun

   a change in pitch or tone of voice.

3. inflectionnoun

   a change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.

4. inflectionnoun

   a turning away from a straight course.

5. Etymology: From the English inflexion, from the inflexio, inflexionis; the spelling inflection is due to influence from correction.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Inflectionnoun

   Etymology: inflectio, Latin.

   1. The act of bending or turning.

   Neither the divine determinations, persuasions, or inflexions of the understanding or will of rational creatures, doth deceive the understanding, pervert the will, or necessitate either to any moral evil. Matthew Hale.

   2. Modulation of the voice.

   His virtue, his gesture, his countenance, his zeal, the motion of his body, and the inflection of his voice, who first uttereth them as his own, is that which giveth the very essence of instruments available to eternal life. Richard Hooker.

   3. Variation of a noun or verb.

   The same word in the original tongue, by divers inflections and variations, makes divers dialects. Edward Brerewood.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. inflection

   Inflection, in language and grammar, refers to a change in the form of a word, often through the addition of an affix, to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, or case. For example, the change from "run" to "ran" in English is an inflection for past tense. In the field of mathematics, inflection refers to a point of a curve where a change in the direction of curvature occurs. In general, inflection is a change or alteration in something that may produce different outcomes or influence its nature or behavior in some manner.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Inflectionnoun

   the act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected

2. Inflectionnoun

   a bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist

3. Inflectionnoun

   a slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection

4. Inflectionnoun

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

5. Inflectionnoun

   any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice

6. Inflectionnoun

   a departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting

7. Inflectionnoun

   same as Diffraction

8. Etymology: [L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion. See Inflect.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Inflection

   In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is also called declension. An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change. For example, the Latin verb ducam, meaning "I will lead", includes the suffix -am, expressing person, number, and tense. The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause "I will lead", the word lead is not inflected for any of person, number, or tense; it is simply the bare form of a verb. The inflected form of a word often contains both a free morpheme, and a bound morpheme. For example, the English word cars is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express the plural; the content morpheme car is unbound because it could stand alone as a word, while the suffix -s is bound because it cannot stand alone as a word. These two morphemes together form the inflected word cars.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Inflection

   the name given to the changes in the end of words to indicate relations, not so common in English—being usually expressed among us by prepositions—as in Latin, Greek, and other languages, but occurring in English as king's, mine, ours, to indicate possession; inflection in nouns is called declension, and in verbs conjugation.

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1. Inflection

   Inflection is a Big Data platform that makes finding public documents simple and affordable. The company has aggregated over 14 billion records, including U.S. census collections, court documents, phonebooks, business filings, obituaries, vital records, and yearbooks. Inflection makes it easy to search and retrieve records through its innovative brands, including and PeopleSmart.com. PeopleSmart helps consumers and professionals find contact information and public records. PeopleSmart seeks to transform the public records landscape with a focus on privacy, data quality, and user empowerment.Inflection derives competitive advantage by building applications and warehousing data in a proprietary in-house platform, called STORM. The platform approach has allowed the company to disrupt industry pricing models and quickly bring new products to market.Inflection was founded in 2006 by brothers Brian and Matthew Monahan from a Harvard dorm room. The company was bootstrapped until 2010, at which point it raised $30 million Series A from top-tier investors Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. It sold Archives.com, a family history website, to Ancestry.com in April 2012 in a $100 million deal. Inflection has 150 employees and is profitable.Learn more about what makes the Inflection culture unique and see a list of open positions at Inflection.com.

Matched Categories

1. • Deviation
   • Grammatical Relation
   • Manner Of Speaking

How to pronounce inflection?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say inflection in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of inflection in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of inflection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of inflection in a Sentence

1. Riki Wilchins:

   We are at a social inflection point on transgender issues, civil rights for minorities come in fits and starts. We're on an upswing now.

2. Lloyd Green:

   Acosta acknowledges Trumps working-class base and captures the shock that reverberated with his upset win. But he fails to place the rage and resentment in the larger context of how America and the west reached this inflection point, acosta should address all this after he tacitly cops to acting like an advocate or editorialist, as opposed to simply reporting breaking news or calling balls and strikes. In his words : Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesnt really serve us in the age of Trump.

3. Tom Steyer:

   Now the impeachment question has reached an inflection point, therefore, I will be dedicating 100 % of my time, effort and resources to one cause, working for Mr. Trump's impeachment and removal from office.

4. Jessica Schultz:

   We believe that both electric and autonomous will be the future of freight, we think that the market is at an inflection point, where you will see a big shift to first electric and then autonomous.

5. Stephen Zhu:

   There will be a time that people will find by spending money you will not be able to buy market share, there will be an inflection point.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=inflection
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Inflection
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=inflection
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inflection
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=inflection
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Inflection
8. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/inflection