| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To turn, twist, divert, reroute or switch.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb deflect.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (deflect) | 1. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.[Wordnet]. 2. Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest.[Wordnet]. 3. Turn aside and away from an initial or intended course.[Wordnet]. 4. Draw someone's attention away from something; "He deflected his competitors".[Wordnet]. 5. Impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball).[Wordnet]. 6. Turn aside.[Wordnet]. 7. To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.[Websters]. 8. To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: deflecting, deflected, deflects, deflector, deflectors, deflectingly and deflectedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being diverging or estranging.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being enticing or alluring. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being sagging or drooping. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being ensuing or following.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEFLECTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFLECTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Turning aside; turning from a right line or regular course.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of deflect. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DEFLECTING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Deflecting block | Engineering & Technology | Long brick with a triangular cross-section placed across the charging holes, with the apex directed upwards, so that the stream of coal entering the oven is divided and spread out. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deflecting electrode | Electrical Engineering | An electrode used to produce the electric field for deflection of the electron beam. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deflecting force | Aerospace | = coriolis force. (references) | |
| Deflecting force | Geography | Composite centrifugal force, due to the rotation of the Earth, which acts on moving particles whose motion is considered relative to that of the Earth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deflecting groyne | Geography | A groyne which pushes the current away from it. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deflecting plate | Mechanical Engineering | A plate or wall for deflecting gases or other fluids as in a steam-boiler flue, a reverberatory furnace or a gasoline-engine muffler. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deflecting plug | Mining | 1: A. See: base plug b. Sometimes used by petroleum drillers as a syn.for deflecting wedge. (references) | |
| 2: A. See:base plug b. Sometimes used by petroleum drillers as a syn. for deflecting wedg. (references) | |||
| Deflecting torque | Physics | A torque resulting from, for example, electrostatic or electromagnetic effects on the moving element. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deflecting wedge | Mining | A class of devices intentionally placed in a borehole to change its course. All such devices are basically long, tapered, concave metal plugs that can be set at a predetermined point and bearing in a borehole to deflect or change its course. Also called correcting wedge, deflecting plug, deflection wedge, Hall-Rowe wedge, spade-end wedge, Thompson wedge.See also:correcting wedge; wedge. (references) | |
| Deflecting yoke | Physics | D. A device encircling the electron beam tube, comprising one or more coils the current through which provides a magnetic field to produce deflection of the electron beam. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Exhaust deflecting ring | Aerospace | A type of jetavator consisting of a ring so mounted at the end of a nozzle as to permit it to be rotated into the exhaust stream. (references) | |
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