Beugung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- declension noun A falling off, decay or descent.
- inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
Senses
Beugung is used for these senses in English:
- diffraction (quantum mechanics) The breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure (e.g. a slit), followed by reconstruction of the wave by interference.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
declension — full definition
- noun A falling off, decay or descent.
- noun The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- noun The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- noun A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
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.