inflection

中文： 词形变化、曲折变化

1. The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. (uncountable) · In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
2. Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class. (countable) · The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
3. An affix representing a given variation. (countable) · English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
4. Any specific morphological form of a particular word, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation. (countable) · Recite every inflection for each of these words.
5. A change in pitch or tone of voice. (countable, uncountable)
6. A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave. (countable, uncountable)
7. A turning away from a straight course. (countable, uncountable) · inflection from the rules
8. Diffraction. (countable, uncountable)

复数 inflections