(n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
(n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
(n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
(n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
(n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
(n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the declension in serum PB131I was less pronounced.
(2) The patterns learned could not be generalized to noun declension or verb conjugation, or broken into smaller words.
(3) The suffixes of the nominal declension in the Old Canary and Etruscan languages are very similar to the corresponding elements of the Sumerian and Ural-Altaic tongues.
(4) Genuine examples of contemporary graffiti, best preserved at Pompeii from AD 79, reveal that even native Latin speakers had trouble with the complexities of case and declension.
(5) The Chinese language, in addition to its lack of verb conjugation and an absence of noun declension, is exceptional in yet another respect: articles, numerals, and other such modifiers cannot directly precede their associated nouns, there has to be an intervening morpheme called a classifier.
(6) In the Chinese language, there are no verb conjugations and no declensions.
Inflexion
Definition:
(n.) Inflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using the mathematical concept of the first and second derivatives, the point of inflexion is obtained, and interpreted as that condition wherein the individual utilizes with maximum efficacy the ingested nitrogen; nitrogen ingestion, which corresponds to that point, is therefore taken as the dietary nitrogen recommendation for the individual.
(2) The International Energy Agency (IEA), in its annual World Energy Outlook , found that coal was “at an inflexion point” with a marked decline in consumption in the biggest market, China.
(3) Three parameters of Gompertz equation, mature size (A), rate of maturing (K) and inflexion point (e-1 A) were analyzed in relation to age of menarche.
(4) The moment of inflexion between both phases, TI, marked the onset of sedimentation of aggregates and corresponded very well with TA, at which time already 92-98% of the cells were aggregated as quantitated by microscopy.
(5) The temperature--activity relationship for the enzyme from 27 to 45 degrees C showed an Arrhenius plot with an inflexion at 36 degrees C. When 5-carboxymethyl-2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde and NAD were used as variable substrates, the double reciprocal plots were all linear and the lines intersected at one point below the horizontal axis, suggesting that a sequential mechanism is operating.
(6) Plots of the magnitude of potentiation against the number of conditioning impulses would sometimes show an upward inflexion depending on the parameters of stimulation.
(7) The following parameters of spinal motoneurones showed no significant differences between normal and dystrophic mice: resting and action potentials, the amplitude and duration of after-hyperpolarization, rheobasic current for excitation, threshold for excitation of the somadendritic membrane (IS-SD inflexion) and input resistance.
(8) Flexion of the trunk is the most stressing; walking, rotations and lateral inflexions increase only moderately the intradiscal pressure.
(9) This inflexion point was displaced to the right by ouabain.2.
(10) An inflexion point of enzyme activity at 38 - 42 degrees C of the bovine serum amineoxidase was found.
(11) The curve illustrating the number of surviving subjects in relation to the time which had elapsed since the injury displayed two definite and two indicated inflexions suggesting increased lethality.
(12) The best retention is the immobility of the arm by inflexion of 90 grade.
(13) The Arrhenius plots showed inflexions at about 22 degrees C, as with the free enzyme, the changes in slope being small at the pH optimum of about 5.9 and becoming much more pronounced as the pH is increased or decreased.
(14) These inflexions represent a change in the reaction kinetics, possibly a conformational change in the enzyme.
(15) Volumetric titration of aqueous solutions of haematoporphyrin IX (HP) yields two inflexion points, whereas four pK values can be obtained via mathematical fitting of the experimental data.
(16) The initial wave was positive with an inflexion on the rising phase and was followed by a shallow rather longer lasting negative potential.3.
(17) There was a fast initial drop in tension followed by a change of slope and a definite inflexion on the tension record.
(18) Adenylate kinase of pig muscle was inactivated by IIc in a manner similar to the rabbit and carp enzymes except that the rate of inactivation exhibited an inflexion.
(19) When the activation energies were calculated both isoenzyme preparations exhibited several points of inflexion, in each case occuring at the same temperatures.
(20) The relationship was linear at low pressures and a point of inflexion occurred at higher pressures in the majority of fibres.5.