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Inflection   /ɪnflˈɛkʃən/   Listen
noun
Inflection  n.  (Written also inflecxion)  
1.
The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
2.
A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
3.
A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
4.
(Gram.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
5.
(Mus.)
(a)
Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
(b)
A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
6.
(Opt.) Same as Diffraction.
Point of inflection (Geom.), the point on opposite sides of which a curve bends in contrary ways.





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"Inflection" Quotes from Famous Books



... never omitted one of my performances, always occupying the stage box, and invariably sending me the next morning a letter, full of the most detailed and delicate criticism, showing a minute attention to every inflection of my voice, every gesture, every attitude, which, combined with expressions of enthusiastic admiration, with which this discriminating and careful review of my performance invariably terminated, was as strong a dose of the finest flattery ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... fear the Change?" he answered her unspoken question, calm serenity in every inflection of his quiet voice. "The life-principle is unknowable to the finite mind, as is the All-Controlling Force. But even though we know nothing of the sublime goal toward which it is tending, any person ripe for the Change can, and of course does, liberate the life-principle so ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... her inflection seeming to imply that Wilbur's crime was explained by his surname. "Wilbur Minafer! It's the queerest thing I ever heard! To think of her taking Wilbur Minafer, just because a man any woman would like a thousand ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... on Darling." As she did not reply, he added, with a gentler inflection, "You know why the ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... a rising inflection, that we were hunting ducks," said De Young. "I temporized; made him forget that I hadn't answered. You know what will happen once the curiosity of the natives ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge


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