inflessione — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accent noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
- inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
Senses
inflessione is used for these senses in English:
- accent (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
- inflection A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- inflection (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
accent — full definition
- noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
- noun A mark placed over a letter to show pronunciation or stress.
- noun A detail that stands out and adds emphasis or contrast, especially in design.
- verb To emphasize or draw attention to something.
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.