'inflection' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'inflection' when referring to a change in the form of a word to show a difference in its grammatical function, or a change in pitch or tone in the voice. For example, "The inflection of her voice when she asked the question made me realize this was important to her."
But the longer a government runs a large deficit, the greater the risk that it hits an inflection point where the markets take fright, and the cost of funding rises sharply: in this respect the eurozone experience is relevant.
"The problem for policymakers is that ex ante it is difficult to know where the inflection point is, and that strengthens the case for erring on the side of caution.
In one major speech, Macpherson said: "In my view, there will always be inflection points where a further increase in borrowing will result in a much bigger increase in funding costs as a number of eurozone countries have found to their cost.
The all-pervasive upward inflection.
But the team itself did nothing to earn that, playing with grace and harmony, giving itself so many chances to score that the result seemed inevitable.Germany's four World Cup wins have come at inflection points in the country's history.
In the city's glittering towers that have shot up in the past decade or so, traders spoke of Kenya reaching an "inflection point" presaging a drop in political risk.
The novelist charts the tiniest vocal inflection, the subtle role that khaki trousers play in marking your place in society, or how a character wears his fleece jacket.
Then the slope rises ever more steeply as bacteria proliferate until it reaches an inflection point.
But as costs mount, says Sunil Mehta of NASSCOM, the Indian outsourcing industry's lobby, mortgages are "ripe for offshoring .It has also, he says, reached an "inflection point".
The why, I conclude is rooted in a rethinking of the meaning of the past century's great monetary inflection points.
Such groups have about a third of European bank deposits; a quarter of Europe's life assurers and a fifth of its property-and-casualty insurers also fall into the category of financial conglomerate.In this section Inflection point?
