in·flec·tion

(ĭn-flĕk′shən)

1. The act of inflecting or the state of being inflected.

2. Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice.

3. Grammar

a. An alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense.

b. An affix indicating such a grammatical feature, as the -s in the English third person singular verb form speaks.

c. The paradigm of a word.

d. A pattern of forming paradigms, such as noun inflection or verb inflection.

4. A turning or bending away from a course or position of alignment.

in·flec′tion·al adj.

in·flec′tion·al·ly adv.

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in•flec•tion•al

(ɪnˈflɛk ʃə nl)

adj.

of, pertaining to, characterized by, or used in inflection.

[1825–35]

in•flec′tion•al•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

inflectional - characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions; "inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc."

derivational - characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base; "the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational"

Translations

inflectional

[ɪnˈflekʃənl] ADJ → con inflexión

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