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transflexions

transflexions is the plural of transflexion.

Meaning of transflexion

Noun

transflexion (countable and uncountable, plural transflexions)

  1. Type of spectroscopic measurement.
    • The measurement mode follows the principles of transflexion. For this purpose the cell is backed with a ceramic disc opposite the measuring head, along with the light source and the diode-array detector.2005, Sidney Walter Reginald Cox, Precision Livestock Farming '05, →ISBN, page 236
  2. Word-formation technique.
    • An interesting case is posed by Slovak transflexion which consists of employing an inflectional morpheme (or, better, the whole paradigm it stands for) in the word-formation role (ape -» to ape vs. opica —> opicif sä where -if is an infinitive-forming morpheme) ...2000, Pavol Štekauer, “Beheading the word? Please, stop the execution”, in Folia Linguistica, volume 34, number 3

Questions about transflexions

What is transflexions the plural of?
Transflexions is the plural of transflexion.

Words near transflexions in the dictionary

  1. transflectance
  2. transflection
  3. transflections
  4. transflective
  5. transflexion
  6. transflexions
  7. transfluence
  8. transfluences
  9. transfluent
  10. transfluorescence
  11. transfluthrin

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