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How to pronounce deflexion in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deflection
Type of motion, movement
Type Words
Synonyms deflection, refraction
Type of bending, bend
Type Words
Synonyms deflection, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion
Type of turning, turn
Has types red herring
Derivation deflect
Type Words
Synonyms bending, deflection
Type of physical property
Has types windage, refractiveness, refractivity, wind deflection

Examples of deflexion

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Deflexion is a common feature of the history of many Indo-European languages.
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French is another example of a language where deflexion has been exceptionally strong.
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Deflexion is a linguistic process related to inflectional languages.
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Afrikaans virtually originated from Dutch by deflexion.
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Some of this difference is due to deflexion, featured by a loss of tenses present in Proto-Indo-European.
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Some of this difference is due to deflexion, featured by a loss of tenses present in Proto-Indo-European, for example the perfect.
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However, exceptions to the gradual diachronic process have been observed where the deflexion process diminished or came to a halt, or where inflexional case marking was occasionally reinforced.
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More examples
  • Deflection: the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
  • Deflection: the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
  • Deflection: the property of being bent or deflected
  • Diversion: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
  • Deflexion is a linguistic process related to inflectional languages. All members of the Indo-European language family belong to these kinds of languages and are subject to some degree of deflexional change. The process is typified by the degeneration of the inflectional structure of a language. ...
  • Alternative spelling of deflection