flexion — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bending noun The action of curving or forcing something out of a straight line.
- inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
Senses
flexion is used for these senses in English:
- bending Capable of being bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
bending — full definition
- noun The action of curving or forcing something out of a straight line.
- adjective Able to bend or flex without breaking.
inflection — full definition
- noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- noun Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
- noun An affix representing a given variation.
- noun Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.