INFLECTION


Meaning of INFLECTION in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Dominic used to be a master of inflection .

He spoke slowly and without inflection .

My voice, my tone, my inflection , everything.

Other verbs incorporate size into movement and provide additional meaning by their inflection .

The audience sits mesmerised by his expressive choreography, watching each inflection of the hand or eyebrow.

There was no bliss in his inflection .

This sounds like one of his more severe remarks, although perhaps an ironical inflection has not survived its reporting.

We have just hit the inflection point.

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