单词 | inflectional |
释义 | inflectionaladj. 1. Pertaining to or characterized by grammatical inflection. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [adjective] 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [adjective] > relating to point(s) in 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. ΘΚΠ 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.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1832 |
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