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单词 inflectional
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inflectionaladj.

/ɪnˈflɛkʃənəl/
Forms: 1800s– inflectional, 1800s– inflexional.
Etymology: < inflection n. + -al suffix1.
1. Pertaining to or characterized by grammatical inflection.
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inflective1799
inflectional1832
flexional1833
fusional1921
1832 J. C. Hare in Philol. Museum 1 656 That disposition..to shorten inflexional terminations.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. 185 (note) Pott's formula for the morphological classification of languages was that they are ‘isolating’ ‘agglutinative’, and ‘inflectional’.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vi. 107 It does not lose what it once possessed in the way of inflectional apparatus.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest 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. Geometry. Of or pertaining to a point of inflection.
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punctated1710
bipartite1858
punctate1860
inflectional1862
bicuspidal1867
bitangential1873
trinodal1873
1862 G. 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.
1926 S. 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.
1966 J. H. Cadwell Topics in Recreational Math. x. 100 Still more special is an inflectional tangent which both touches and crosses a curve.

Derivatives

inˈflectionally adv. (also inˈflexionally) in regard to inflection.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [adverb]
inflectionally1885
1885 G. Baden-Powell in Contemp. Rev. Oct. The Bushman language is classed inflectionally with the Basque, Finn [etc.].
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