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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
inflect
Inflect means to turn from a course or a specified alignment; bend.
Can you say a sentence with this meaning of the word.
Can you say a sentence with this meaning of the word.
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Here are a few odd and erudite examples from Ms Google: A Prolate, or Inflected Cycloid, is in like manner the path of some point taken within the generating circle. Thus, if, while the circle rolls along the line AB, the point R be taken without the circle, it will describe or trace out the curtate or contracted cycloid RST; but the point being taken within the circle, it will describe the prolate or inflected cycloid RVW. Here are examples of maximally inflected quartic curves with all possibilities for the ramification.
- Here are a few odd and erudite examples from Ms Google: A Prolate, or Inflected Cycloid, is in like manner the path of some point taken within the generating circle.
- Thus, if, while the circle rolls along the line AB, the point R be taken without the circle, it will describe or trace out the curtate or contracted cycloid RST; but the point being taken within the circle, it will describe the prolate or inflected cycloid RVW.
- Here are examples of maximally inflected quartic curves with all possibilities for the ramification.
- The Inflected Letters: Ten Sabbatean Tales is a collection of ten interlocking short stories at the intersections of faith and desire.
- HTM#ARCH the curve of whose flanks is reversed near the crown, so as to terminate in an acute angle.
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Here are a few odd and erudite examples from Ms Google:
A Prolate, or Inflected Cycloid, is in like manner the path of some point taken within the generating circle. Thus, if, while the circle rolls along the line AB, the point R be taken without the circle, it will describe or trace out the curtate or contracted cycloid RST; but the point being taken within the circle, it will d
A Prolate, or Inflected Cycloid, is in like manner the path of some point taken within the generating circle. Thus, if, while the circle rolls along the line AB, the point R be taken without the circle, it will describe or trace out the curtate or contracted cycloid RST; but the point being taken within the circle, it will d
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Well, I think we all know that the verb inflect has two basic meanings:
1) change the form of a word using grammatical rules
2) modulate (speech)
From what I know, your meaning (which isn't mentioned in some dictionaries at all, by the way) is limited to biology (botany). Therefore, I don't hesitate to call the third meaning useless for pratical everyday English. May
1) change the form of a word using grammatical rules
2) modulate (speech)
From what I know, your meaning (which isn't mentioned in some dictionaries at all, by the way) is limited to biology (botany). Therefore, I don't hesitate to call the third meaning useless for pratical everyday English. May
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Mister MicawberHere are a few odd and erudite examples from Ms Google:
A Prolate, or Inflected Cycloid, is in like manner the path of some point taken within the generating circle. Thus, if, while the circle rolls along the line AB, the point R be taken without the circle, it will describe or trace out the curtate or contracted cycloid RST; but the point
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So can we say the locus of a point on the circle rolling along a straight line defines an inflected line (cycloid)?
Can we say the alignment of the wheels of a car are inflected to mean they are out of alignment?
Can we say the alignment of the wheels of a car are inflected to mean they are out of alignment?
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If you are involved in languages and grammar, you will need the word inflection.
If you are involved in mathematics, particularly calculus, you will need the word inflection.
These are the only two usages of the word I have ever encountered in my entire life!
You won't need it in automechanics. But you will need out of alignment!
If you are involved in mathematics, particularly calculus, you will need the word inflection.
These are the only two usages of the word I have ever encountered in my entire life!
You won't need it in automechanics. But you will need out of alignment!
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