- 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.
- The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting
from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or
external force. - The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both
animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the
environment. - The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including
the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and
refreshment.
- To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers
from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic
proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. - To change into another substance having the same
atomic proportions, but a higher molecular weight; to undergo
polymerization; thus, aldehyde polymerizes in forming paraldehyde.