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/ɪnflˈɛktəd/ Listen

verb

Inflect v. t. (past & past part. inflected; pres. part. inflecting)

To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. "Are they (the rays of the sun) not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle?"

(Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

To modulate, as the voice.

adjective

Inflected adj.

Bent; turned; deflected.

(Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective.

Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid.

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Etymology of 'Inflected'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inflected" Quotes from Famous Books

... be able, and nequeo, nequire, nequivi, to be unable, are inflected like eo, but occur chiefly in the Present Tense, and there ...

— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett

... of Gaelic seem to have carefully avoided bringing into apposition two vowels which belong to different syllables. For this purpose they have sometimes introduced a quiescent consonant into the middle of compound or of inflected words; as, gneidheil, or rather gnethail kindly, made up of gn['e] and ail; beothail lively, made up of beo and ail; diathan gods, from the singular dia; lathaibh days, from the singular l['a], ...

— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart

... regular plan and are called regular verbs. Verbs that depart from this plan are called irregular. The verb to be is irregular in Latin as in English. The present, imperfect, and future tenses of the indicative are inflected as follows: ...

— Latin for Beginners • Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

... King, as we Arizona wild-hoss wranglers calls this mustang, is mighty pertickler about his feed, an' he ranged along here last night, easy like, browsin' on this white sage," said Stewart. Inflected by our intense interest in the famous mustang, and ruffled slightly by Jones's manifest surprise and contempt that no one had captured him, Stewart had volunteered to guide us. "Never knowed him to run ...

— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey