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A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.

Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max Müller.

Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [R.] Walker.

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 pl. analogies. Johnson.

hetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of th…

Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

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. Case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of wo…

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.

The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.

Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

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

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.