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inflexional, inflectional, a.|ɪnˈflɛkʃənəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to or characterized by grammatical inflexion.
1832J. C. Hare in Philol. Museum I. 656 That disposition..to shorten inflexional terminations. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. 185 note, Pott's formula for the morphological classification of languages was that they are ‘isolating’ ‘agglutinative’, and ‘inflectional’. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vi. 107 It does not lose what it once possessed in the way of inflectional apparatus. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxv. 509 Had no Norman ever set foot on our shores, the inflexional Old-English would still have passed, sooner or later, into the non-inflexional modern English.
2. Geom. Of or pertaining to a point of inflexion.
1862G. Salmon Treat. Analytic Geom. Three Dimensions x. 182 We shall call the two lines which meet the surface in three coincident points, the inflexional tangents at the point. 1926S. Ganguli Theory Plane Curves (ed. 2) II. i. 32 Through each point there pass four lines, each of which passes through two..points of inflexion. These lines are called inflexional lines. 1966J. H. Cadwell Topics in Recreational Math. x. 100 Still more special is an inflectional tangent which both touches and crosses a curve.
Hence inˈflexionally (inˈflectionally) adv., in regard to inflexion.
1885G. Baden-Powell in Contemp. Rev. Oct., The Bushman language is classed inflectionally with the Basque, Finn [etc.]. |