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Inflecting

Inflect \In*flect"\, v. t. [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.

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inflecting

vb. (present participle of inflect English)