inflexion

Noun

Meaning

Inflection.

Source: Webster's dictionary

inflection bough bend turn modulation tone variation accent deviation curvature bending alteration deflection intonation flexion

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same standard remain agreement stay accuracy

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The levelling of inflexion and of wordplay became part of the program of applied knowledge in the seventeenth century. Marshall McLuhan

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Roland Barthes

inflexible system inflexibleness inflexibly inflexional inflexionally inflexionless