Synonyms of the word

inflection

• n. (grammar) A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function.
• n. A change in pitch or tone of voice.
• n. (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
• n. A turning away from a straight course.
• n. (optometry) diffraction.

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

departure

• n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
• n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• n. (euphemistic) A death.
• n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
• n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
• n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

deviation

• n. The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule,…
• n. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
• n. (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual…
• n. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile…
• n. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed…
• n. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

difference

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
• n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
• n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
• n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
• n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
• n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
• n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
• n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

divergence

• n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
• n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
• n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

flection

• n. Alternative spelling of flexion.
• n. The state of being bent or flexed.
• n. Deviation from straightness.
• n. (grammar, dated) The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

flexion

• n. The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint. The counteraction of extension.
• n. Alternative spelling of flection.

inflexion

• n. Alternative spelling of inflection.

modulation

• n. The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.
• n. The variation and regulation of a population, physiological response, etc.

prosody

• n. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
• n. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

speech

• n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
• n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
• n. A style of speaking.
• n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
• n. A dialect or language.
• n. Talk; mention; rumour.