'Inflected' definitions:
Definition of 'inflected'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; "his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one" [ant: uninflected]
adjective
Showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes); "`boys' and `swam' are inflected English words"; "German is an inflected language" [ant: uninflected]
Definition of 'Inflected'
From: GCIDE
- Inflect \In*flect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, and cf. Inflex.]
- 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. [1913 Webster]
- Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ? --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To modulate, as the voice. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Inflected'
From: GCIDE
- Inflected \In*flect"ed\, a.
- 1. Bent; turned; deflected. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. [1913 Webster]
- Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid. [1913 Webster]