Inflection
/ˌɪˈnflɛkʃən/
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Definition
(noun) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
Sentence Examples
Every sentence he spoke ended in an incredibly annoying upward inflection.
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