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Deflection :: Deflection (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.

Inflected :: Inflected (a.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective..

Flexion :: Flexion (n.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection..

Inflectional :: Inflectional (a.) Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection..

Acute :: Acute (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much..

Analogy :: Analogy (n.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly..

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) Same as Diffraction.

Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison..

Inflective :: Inflective (a.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection..

Case :: Case (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word..

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc..

Anaptotic :: Anaptotic (a.) Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages..

Declension :: Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases..

Tone :: Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion..

Flectional :: Flectional (a.) Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection..

Parisyllabical :: Parisyllabical (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

Conjugation :: Conjugation (n.) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.

Paradigm :: Paradigm (n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection..

Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

Heteroclite :: Heteroclite (n.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension..

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