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Inflected   /ɪnflˈɛktəd/   Listen
verb
Inflect  v. t.  (past & past part. inflected; pres. part. inflecting)  
1.
To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. "Are they (the rays of the sun) not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle?"
2.
(Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
3.
To modulate, as the voice.


adjective
Inflected  adj.  
1.
Bent; turned; deflected.
2.
(Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective.
Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid.





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"Inflected" Quotes from Famous Books



... The sources of such literature are abundant. A little research in a well-equipped library brings one into a curious and informing mass of knowledge, ever increasing in bulk, in the French, German and English languages, as well as in many strange and highly inflected African tongues. ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various


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