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Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t.,

To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.

The act of freeing from inflections. Earle.

To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.

That pert of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.

The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection. A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. Earle.

Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton.

r 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.

A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. -- n.

Inflection.

Inflective. "Inflexive endings." W. E. Jelf.

An inflection; a bend or fold. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection. H. Sweet. Level line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a section which is horizontal crosswise, and parallel with the rabbet of the keel lengthwise. Level surface (Physics), an equipotential surface at right angles at every point to the lines of force.…

Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender. -- Mas"cu*line*ly, adv. -- Mas"cu*line*ness, n.

To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many Broome.

An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.