Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inflected"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inflect \In*flect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inflected}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Inflecting}.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in.- in
+ flectere to bend. See {Flexibl}, and cf. {Inflex}.]
1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline,
to deflect; to curve; to bow.
Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected,
refracted, and inflected by one and the same
principle ? --Sir I.
Newton.
2. (Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations;
to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a
verb.
3. To modulate, as the voice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inflected \In*flect"ed\, a.
1. Bent; turned; deflected.
2. (Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to,
inflection; inflective.
{Inflected cycloid} (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See
{Cycloid}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inflected
adj 1: (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; "his southern
Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than
her northern one" [ant: {uninflected}]
2: (linguistics) showing alteration in form (especially by the
addition of affixes); "`boys' and `swam' are inflected
English words"; "German is an inflected langauge" [ant: {uninflected}]
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