Inflection

Noun

 * 1)  a change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.
 * 2) a change in pitch or tone of voice.
 * 3)  a change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
 * 4) a turning away from a straight course.

Synonyms

 * flection
 * flexion

Hyponyms

 * conjugation
 * declension

Related terms

 * inflect
 * inflected

Thesaurus
IC analysis, L, S-curve, accent, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, angle, apex, articulation, bend, bending, bifurcation, bight, bound morpheme, bow, bowing, cant, chevron, coin, conflexure, conjugation, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, cutting, declension, deflection, derivation, difference of form, dogleg, elbow, ell, enclitic, enunciation, flection, flex, flexure, fork, formative, free form, furcation, geanticline, geosyncline, hairpin turn, hook, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, intonation, intonation pattern, knee, meander, modulation, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, nook, oxbow, paradigm, pitch, pitch accent, point, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, pronunciation, quoin, radical, reflection, root, speech tune, stem, suffix, suffixation, suprasegmental, sweep, swerve, theme, timbre, tonality, tone, tone of voice, turn, turning, veer, vertex, word-formation, zag, zig, zigzag

Alternative forms

 * inflexion

Etymology
From the English inflexion, from the inflexio, inflexionis (a bending away from); the variant spelling inflection is due to influence from correction.

Translations

 * Armenian: թեքում (t'ek'um)
 * Bulgarian: склонение
 * Catalan: flexió,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * : bøjning*
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Korean: 굴절, 어형변화
 * Latvian: locīšana
 * Manx: lhoobey
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: böjning


 * Catalan: inflexió
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: äänensävyn muutos


 * Icelandic:
 * Polish: modulacja
 * Spanish:


 * Croatian:
 * Danish: vendepunkt
 * Dutch: buigpunt
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: inflexió
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian: թեքում (t'ek'um)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: