point of inflection

English

inflection point at the center

Alternative forms

• inflection point

Noun

point of inflection (plural points of inflection)

1. (mathematics) a point on a curve at which the sign of the curvature changes; at this point the second derivative of the underlying function will be zero, but positive on one side and negative on the other.

Synonyms

• flex

Translations

point on a curve

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拐點／拐点 (zh) (guǎidiǎn)

• Dutch: buigpunt (nl) n
• Estonian: käänupunkt
• Finnish: käännepiste (fi)
• French: point d’inflexion (fr) m
• German: Wendepunkt (de) m
• Greek: σημείο καμπής n (simeío kampís)
• Hungarian: inflexiós pont (hu)
• Italian: punto di flesso m
• Japanese: 変曲点 (へんきょくてん, henkyokuten)
• Korean: 변곡점 (ko) (byeon'gokjeom)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vendepunkt (no) n

  Nynorsk: vendepunkt n

• Polish: punkt przegięcia m
• Portuguese: ponto de inflexão m
• Romanian: punct de inflexiune (ro) n
• Russian: то́чка переги́ба f (tóčka peregíba)
• Serbo-Croatian: točka infleksije f
• Spanish: punto de inflexión (es) m
• Swedish: inflexionspunkt (sv) c
• Ukrainian: то́чка переги́ну f (tóčka perehýnu)