inflection
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6.8
- noun
- /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
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inflexión
- There's few times where an inflection point is so palpable.
- inflection point
We did not get an inflection point in inflation.
- We did not get an inflection point in inflation.
- Maybe somewhere here that would be the mystical inflection point.
- And I'm looking for that inflection on the SCP for the next real level of bullishness.
- So if I see your name, address or phone number mismatched across the web, that's a scratch my head kind of point of inflection.
- When you look at the epidemiology, when you look at the data that you see a big inflection in, you know, diagnosis or cases of psychiatric illness.
- This episode is like one of those inflection points in my history on Mythbusters.
- And so now we're developing the capabilities to be able to show a pregnant woman when we think she may be able to deliver based on that inflection.
- But when YouTube got the partner program and started revenue sharing that inflection point changed YouTube forever.
- And how do I create an inflection point?
- And then it just kicks up and it hits a, hits a, a inflection point, right?
- At some point though, is there like an inflection point where you make a move or what changes?
- Tell me your inflection point, the thing you like the most that you're the best at.
Examples
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And this is really the inflection point for everything that follows.
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What was the what was the kind of inflection point where that started?
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So walk us through what those inflection points were.
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We plot this inflection point on a number line.
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What this really represents is a moment of inflection and ultimately a moment of potential transformation.
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But when YouTube got the partner program and started revenue sharing that inflection point changed YouTube forever.
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In short, we are at an inflection point, a point where the curve starts to bend a lot because of computers.
Academic text (2015) -
2007/2008 will be seen as an inflection point on how future political campaigns are managed.
Blog text (2) -
Notably, this decline was decades before the Jurchen conquest, suggesting the inflection, rather than the war itself, was to blame.
Academic text (2017) -
The road made a sharp inflection to the left, avoiding the cliff edge.
Synonyms
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4.4
A sharp bend in a road, river or path
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3.4
How much a surface goes up or down from flat
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2.1
A change that makes something curve from being straight
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6.3
How sharply a line or surface bends at one point
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6.0
How much an object bends or moves away from a straight line
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9.9
A bending of a joint like a knee or elbow
Bending of a beam or other part so it is not straight
Compounds
How Curved
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inflection comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and flectere 'to bend', the same root as flex (think 'flexible' for 'able to bend'). So an inflection can mean a real 'bend' or change in direction or shape, which is why we use it for curves or deviations.