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inflexion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inflexion
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Always the sound is superbly focused, the inflexion unanimous; it may be lean, but it is never thin.
▪ It is often divided into two lobes by an inflexion of its wall where it articulates with the pleuron.
▪ Its political inflexion contests the middle-class work ethic which is the main purpose of its message.
▪ The m is the value of T at the inflexion point of the curve.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inflexion

Inflexion \In*flex"ion\, n. Inflection.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inflexion

see inflection; also see -xion.

Wiktionary
inflexion

n. (alternative spelling of inflection English)

WordNet
inflexion

n. a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function [syn: inflection]

Usage examples of "inflexion".

He omitted from it the five inflexions that would extend the summons beyond the world, since his intent was centred on the trapped ghosts of the vase.

It is a curious fact that in the more exalted passages in his speeches Cripps seems to have caught certain inflexions of voice from Churchill.

It will be a language with all the inflexions of verbs and nouns regular and all its constructions inevitable, each word clearly distinguishable from every other word in sound as well as spelling.

Thus not only are there several Wotan themes, but each varies in its inflexions and shades of tone color according to its dramatic circumstances.

Old Irish uses b-forms in these two functions, but distinguishes between future and consuetudinal in inflexion.