inflexão

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin īnflexiōnem. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: in‧fle‧xão === Noun === inflexão f (plural inflexões) inflection (change in pitch or tone of voice) Synonym: entonação (mathematics) inflection (change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave) inflection (turning away from a straight course) Synonym: desvio (grammar) inflection (change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function) Synonym: flexão ==== Derived terms ==== ponto de inflexão === Further reading === “inflexão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026