Meaning of Inflection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
   uncountable
2. Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
   countable
3. An affix representing a given variation.
   countable
4. Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
   countable
5. A change in pitch or tone of voice.
   countable, uncountable
6. A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
   countable, uncountable
7. A turning away from a straight course.
   countable, uncountable
8. Diffraction.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.”

“The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.”

“English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.”

“Recite every inflection for each of these words.”

“inflection from the rules”

CEFR level