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/ˈaksidəns/,
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The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words,
  1. The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words


  1. inflectional morphology: the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
  2. In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. Conjugation is the inflection of verbs; declension is the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
  3. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar - John Milton; a book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art; The rudiments of any subject - James Russell Lowell
  4. Changes that occur in the forms or inflections of words to indicate tenses, singular and plural, etc. e.g. climb/climbed, ox/oxen, table/tables,