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inflection

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Noun — The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.

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From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.

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