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inflection

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The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.

The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.

Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.

A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.

Same as Diffraction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration. Anaïs Nin

The performance of Reliance shows an amazing trend when mapped against time. The inflection point was 1991. We grew exponentially, eventually becoming India's biggest private enterprise, on the basis of freedom to compete against the best in the world. Mukesh Ambani

Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made "bad grammar” possible. Marshall McLuhan

Most of the time we are punished if we go against the trend. Only at an inflection point are we rewarded. George Soros

Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds. Susan Vreeland

A declension is also a group of nouns that follow a particular pattern of inflection. Source: Internet

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