Definition of Inflect

In`flect´
v. t.1.To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
[imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.]
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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