An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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A change in the form of a word to indicate a change in such grammatical features as tense, person, gender, case, number, voice, or mood. A general term for → declension and → conjugation.

Verbal noun of → inflect.

A point on a → curve at which the → tangent changes direction, from rotating in one sense to rotating in the opposite sense.

→ inflection; → point.

Of, relating to, or characterized by the use of → inflection, e.g. → inflectional affix.

→ inflection + → -al.

An → inflection that is added at the end of a root word. In English there are eight inflectional affixes, which are all suffixes. They always follow derivational suffixes and do not change the category of a word.

→ inflectional + → affix.