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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inflect \In*flect"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Inflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inflecting}.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See {Flexible}, and cf. {Inflex}.]
1. 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 ? --Sir I. Newton.
2. (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.
3. To modulate, as the voice.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inflected \In*flect"ed\, adjective
1. Bent; turned; deflected.
2. (Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective.
{Inflected cycloid} (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See {Cycloid}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inflected
adjective
1: (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; "his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one" [ant: {uninflected}]
2: showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes); "'boys' and 'swam' are inflected English words"; "German is an inflected langauge" [ant: {uninflected}]
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