inflection
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.Examples: "In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin."uncountable
2. (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.Examples: "The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages."countable
3. (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.Examples: "English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s."countable
4. (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.Examples: "Recite every inflection for each of these words."countable
5. (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.countableuncountable
6. (optometry) Diffraction.countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary