inflect : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: inflect	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for inflect
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inflect v change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language vary the pitch of one's speech Synonym(s): tone, inflect, modulate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inflect \In*flect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inflecting}.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in.- in + flectere to bend. See {Flexibl}, 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.