About The Word Deflection
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Deflection
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What's The Definition Of Deflection?
[n] a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
[n] the property of being bent or deflected [n] the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position [n] the amount by which a propagating wave is bent [n] a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting Synonyms | Synonyms for Deflection: bending | deflexion | deflexion | deflexion | deviation | digression | divagation | diversion | refraction | warp Related Terms | Find terms related to Deflection: aberration | angle | apex | atmospheric attenuation | bend | bending | bifurcation | bight | blind spots | bow | bowing | cant | chevron | circuitousness | clutter | coin | conflexure | corner | crank | crook | crosswiseness | crotchet | declination | defile | deflexure | deflower | departing | departure | deviance | deviation | deviousness | diagonality | diffraction | diffusion | digression | dispersion | distortion | divagation | divergence | diversion | dogleg | elbow | ell | excursion | false echoes | flection | flex | flexure | force | fork | furcation | geanticline | geosyncline | ground clutter | hairpin turn | hook | indirection | indirectness | inflection | knee | L | meander | nonconformity | nook | obliqueness | obliquity | outrage | oxbow | point | quoin | ravish | reflection | refraction | scatter | S-curve | sea clutter | skewness | spoil | squint | superrefraction | sweep | swerve | swerving | torsion | transverseness | turn | turning | twisting | vagary | veer | veering | vertex | violate | zag | zig | zigzag See Also | aberrance | aberrancy | aberration | bend | bending | deviance | motion | movement | physical property | red herring | refractiveness | refractivity | turn | turning | wind deflection | windage Deflection In Webster's Dictionary \De*flec"tion\, n. [L. deflexio, fr. deflectere: cf.
F. d['e]flexion.]
1. The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside;
a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending,
esp. downward; deviation.
The other leads to the same point, through certain
deflections. --Lowth.
2. (Gunnery) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true
course.
3. (Opt.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface
of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.
4. (Engin.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from
its own weight or by reason of a load.
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