Inflection
Enhanced Definition
In a general linguistic context, **inflection** refers to the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, or case. It represents a "change in form" of a word to convey additional grammatical meaning without changing its core lexical meaning. Within the IBM mainframe and z/OS ecosystem, **this term does not have a specific technical definition or application.**
Key Characteristics
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- Linguistic Origin: Primarily a concept from linguistics and natural language processing, not a standard technical term within IBM mainframe systems or programming languages like COBOL, JCL, or Assembler.
- Grammatical Modification: In linguistics, it involves altering the ending or form of a word (e.g
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