Inflection | Mean of inflection in English Dictionary

/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/

• Noun
• a rise or fall in the sound of a person's voice
1. She spoke with no inflection.
2. She read the lines with an upward/rising inflection.
3. vocal inflections
• a change in the form of a word that occurs when it has a particular use
1. Most English adjectives do not require inflection.
• a form of a word that occurs when it has a particular use
1. “Gone” and “went” are inflections of the verb “go.”

• a part of a word (such as a suffix) that is used to change a word's form for a particular use
1. English has fewer inflections than many other languages.