Usually means: Change in form, pitch, tone.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflection: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inflection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inflection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inflection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inflection: Wordnik
  7. inflection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inflection: Wiktionary
  9. inflection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inflection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inflection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inflection: Dictionary.com
  13. inflection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inflection (disambiguation), Inflection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Inflection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inflection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inflection: Rhymezone
  18. Inflection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inflection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inflection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inflection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. inflection: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. inflection: Wordnik
  24. inflection: FreeDictionary.org
  25. inflection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inflection: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Inflection: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inflection (chemistry), inflection: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inflection (chemistry), inflection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inflection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Inflection (chemistry), inflection: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar, uncountable) A change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
noun:  (grammar, countable) An instance of such change.
noun:  (grammar) An affix representing such an instance.
noun:  (grammar, countable) Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
noun:  A change in pitch or tone of voice.
noun:  (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
noun:  A turning away from a straight course.
noun:  (optometry) Diffraction.

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