Inflect /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting

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. To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. (Gram.)
3. To modulate, as the voice.