What's the difference between cadence and inflection?

Cadence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.
  • (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
  • (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
  • (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
  • (n.) See Cadency.
  • (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
  • (n.) A uniform time and place in marching.
  • (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
  • (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
  • (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (2) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (3) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
  • (4) The breakthrough came when the brothers moved to Nashville in the mid-1950s and signed a recording contract with New York-based Cadence Records.
  • (5) One-way repeated-measures analyses of variance on the mean EMG amplitude in stance and in swing revealed significant changes with cadence (P less than 0.05) in all muscles examined.
  • (6) Competitive cyclists generally climb hills at a low cadence despite the recognized advantage in level cycling of high cadences.
  • (7) Cadence decreased in 7 cases, while gait speed increased in all cases.
  • (8) Temporal and distance gait factors (velocity, cadence and stride length) were significantly reduced in patients with diseased knees.
  • (9) Traumatic AK amputees ambulate with time-distance parameters of velocity, cadence, stride length and gait cycle which are all two standard deviations below normal.
  • (10) The purpose of this experiment was to quantify and analyse multijoint coordination of patients with Parkinson's disease (N = 5) and control subjects (N = 5) during forward and backward stepping motions executed at different cadences.
  • (11) The task was terminated when the subject fell four contractions behind the required cadence or failed to complete two successive contractions.
  • (12) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (13) The average child with spastic cerebral palsy was found to have a shorter stance phase than the normal, but the cadence, while more variable, was nearly the same as normal.
  • (14) Phases, vertical forces and differentials of the characteristic points in variable step lengths and cadences were studied in normal gaits and pathological gaits of patients with hip, knee or ankle disorders.
  • (15) No significant differences were found in velocity, cadence, gait-cycle duration, single-limb support, or swing-stance ratios in free and fast walking.
  • (16) Conventional designs of an above-knee prosthesis are based on mechanisms with mechanical properties (such as friction, spring and damping coefficients) that remain constant during changing cadence.
  • (17) The first aim was to investigate how cyclists orient forces applied by the feet to the pedals in response to varying power output and cadence demands, and the second was to assess whether competitive riders responded differently from recreational riders to such variations.
  • (18) Coupling between cardiac and locomotor rhythms has been identified while people walk, run, hop and cycle at cadences natural to them.
  • (19) A new technique for simultaneously recording continuous electrocardiographic (ECG) data and walking step rate (cadence) is described.
  • (20) Indeed, the outrage and umbrage – most of all, it seems, about Obama "cadence" – deflates as it is uttered.

Inflection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
  • (n.) A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
  • (n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
  • (n.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
  • (n.) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
  • (n.) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
  • (n.) Same as Diffraction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (2) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
  • (3) We conclude from these six studies that: (a) BN presents a counter-example to the claim that non-fluent patients have particular difficulty with those aspects of morphology which have a syntactic function; (b) BN processes both derived and inflected words by mapping the sensory input onto the entire full-form of a complex word, but the semantic and syntactic content of the stem alone is accessed and integrated into the context.
  • (4) The Hill plots of all resonances of the imidazole rings, including the 15N resonances, show a small inflection in the pH range 5.8-6.4.
  • (5) Two of the three inflection points occurring in the voltammograms are invariant with changes in scan rate, pH, CO2, O2, and glucose.
  • (6) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
  • (7) We measured the pressure-volume curves (PV curves) of the lung simultaneously at three levels in the esophagus below the tracheal bifurcation using the three-short-balloon-catheter system in 11 normal seated men and compared the inflection points (IP's) of three PV curves with the closing volume (CV) on the single-breath nitrogen washout curve.
  • (8) Stimulation of secretion of preloaded 125I-mannose-N-acetyl-poly-D-lysine by mannose-BSA was more pronounced at lower temperatures with a sharp inflection point at 10 degrees C. These findings suggest that endosomes containing newly internalized mannose-BSA interact with the exocytosis pathway and enhance secretion of 125I-mannose-N-acetyl-poly-D-lysine from lysosomes.
  • (9) The inflection in plasma epinephrine shifted in an identical manner and occurred simultaneously with that of TLa (r = 0.97) regardless of the testing protocol or training status.
  • (10) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
  • (11) The contours of the major components of the far-field CMAPs were frequently interrupted by a series of small amplitude negative and positive peaks or inflections.
  • (12) Surface tension graphs were similar to those of conventional surfactants, showing apparent critical micelle concentrations (cmc) at distinct inflection points.
  • (13) The absence of an inflection point show that surface EMG does not provide an indication of Tlac.
  • (14) The clear inflection point at 3 x 10(-6) M (25 degrees C) observed in the surface tension-concentration curve may not represent the CMC for the formation of multimolecular aggregates.
  • (15) Thermotolerance was identified from the appearance of an inflection in the survival curve or from the loss of heat resistance in the presence of chloramphenicol (CAM) or rifampicin.
  • (16) The use of the inflection point is discussed thoroughly, concluding that although it does not allow exclusion of the existence of genotypically different subgroups, the limitations of the data do not permit its use to determine the number of heterozygotes and thus the existence of polymorphism.
  • (17) On the other hand, the number of groups corresponding to the second inflection is slightly increased.
  • (18) Parameter estimates are obtained from estimates of the size and time at the point of inflection, the size and time at any other arbitrarily selected point, and the maximum size.
  • (19) The conversational features within the transcript included the interruptions, pauses, overlaps, inflections, and turn shapes as structured by the participants.
  • (20) Type II is a spike of short duration (mean 2.0 msec) with only an inflection on the falling phase.