Definition of Inflecting. Meaning of Inflecting. Synonyms of Inflecting

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Definition of Inflecting

Inflecting
Inflect In*flect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in.- in + flectere to bend. See Flexibl, and cf. Inflex.] 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 ? --Sir I. Newton. 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.

Meaning of Inflecting from wikipedia

- Inflecting a verb is called conjugating it. The forms may express tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, or number. An organized list of the inflected forms...
- Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single...
- In linguistics, an inflected preposition is a type of word that occurs in some languages, that corresponds to the combination of a preposition and a personal...
- particular syntactic category, has a certain meaning (semantic value), and in inflecting languages, has a corresponding inflectional paradigm. That is, a lexeme...
- that Spanish determiners inflect for gender (masculine/feminine, with some instances of vestigial neuter) and always inflect for number as well. Spanish...
- is most closely related to the Awyu languages to the east. Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections of the stem and suffixes to indicate...
- and particles. Tagalog is an agglutinative yet slightly inflected language. Pronouns are inflected for number and verbs for focus/voice and aspect. Tagalog...
- An inverted arch or invert is a civil engineering structure in the form of an inverted arch, inverted in comparison to the usual arch bridge. Like the...
- In valency marking languages, valency change is shown by inflecting the verb in order to change the valency. In Kalaw Lagaw Ya of Australia...
- extensive case systems, with nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and determiners all inflecting (usually by means of different suffixes) to indicate their case. The number...