inflector
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A device for bending a particle beam.
Example Sentences
- "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."