What does inflector mean?
Inflector means (linguistics) An affix that inflects the base form of a word..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(linguistics) An affix that inflects the base form of a word..
These modulants are inflectors of roots to allow them to serve as descriptors, and modulation is desirable because the root form may be retrieved without the modulant when making a generic search.
The inflectors of English are relatively few in number, so each has quite a high frequency of occurrence.
This is an observation I make in Jefferies (1990) in connection with certain allomorphs of the copulative, 'possessive' and some of the adverbialising prefixes in Shona, where, again, these inflectors depend on 'their' stems for vowel shape and how their underlying high tones are realised.
In order to prevent the beams striking the inflectors on subsequent turns, each ring would contain a set of foils, thick at the outer radius but thinning to zero about one inch inside the inflector radius.
The introduction of electrons into the chamber is accomplished by means of an iron antimagnetic channel with subsequent bending by electrically pulsed inflectors.
Although various type of inflectors are possible (see S 4.1), the choice was made on an electrostatic mirror for reason of simplicity and compactness.
The two last, the intertransversarii and quadrati lumborum, are here enumerated with the dorsal inflectors, because the are dorsad of the centre of motion, and accordingly relaxed in the dead body, when the trunk is inflected in the dorsal direction.
The scateni medii appear to act exclusively as lateral inflectors.
Use inflector when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inflector means (linguistics) An affix that inflects the base form of a word..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These modulants are inflectors of roots to allow them to serve as descriptors, and modulation is desirable because the root form may be retrieved without the modulant when making a generic search.
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