Inflect
Inflect , transitive verb
[Latin inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, and compare Inflex.]
1.
To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle?
2.
(Grammar) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
3.
To modulate, as the voice.