1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
Boyle.
2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson.
3. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; — said of currency. [U.S.]
Inflationist
(In*fla"tion*ist), n. One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money. [U.S.]
Inflatus
(||In*fla"tus) n. [L. See Inflate, v. t.] A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.
The divine breath that blows the nostrils out
To ineffable inflatus.
Mrs. Browning. Inflect
(In*flect") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref.
in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, 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.
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.
Inflection
(In*flec"tion) n. [L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion. See Inflect.] [Written also inflecxion.]
1. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
3. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
4. (Gram.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison,
tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
5. (Mus.) (a) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice. (b) A departure from the
monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
6. (Opt.) Same as Diffraction.
Point of inflection (Geom.), the point on opposite sides of which a curve bends in contrary ways.
Inflectional
(In*flec"tion*al) a. Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max
Müller.
Inflective
(In*flect"ive) a.
