n. (also inflexion)
1. a the act or condition of inflecting or being inflected. b an instance of this.
2 Gram. a the process or practice of inflecting words. b an inflected form of a word. c a suffix etc. used to inflect, e.g. -ed.
3 a modulation of the voice.
4 Geom. a change of curvature from convex to concave at a particular point on a curve.
Derivatives:
inflectional adj. inflectionally adv. inflectionless adj.
Etymology: F inflection or L inflexio (as INFLECT)