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Definitions: Deflection |
DeflectionNoun1. A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting. 2. The amount by which a propagating wave is bent. 3. The movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position. 4. The property of being bent or deflected. 5. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deflection" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | The deviation of the neutral axis(as of a beam or girder)under stress from its normal position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Bending that causes a change in the normal shape and/or size of a body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The variation of the direction of a beam by an electric or magnetic field. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | In a transverse test, displacement of the application point of the load. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | 1. the wandering of a borehole from its intended course;2. the intentional alteration of the course of a borehole in directional drilling. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A change in the intended course of a borehole produced intentionally or unintentionally by various conditions encountered in the drill hole or by the operational characteristics of the drilling equipment used.Syn:deviation. (references) | |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A bending of rays from a sraight line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: A specific meaning of the english word. Definition: When the puck bounces off a players stick or unintentionally off a players skate and into the goal. Context: Used to describe the action of the puck bouncing into the goal. Social Source: New York City club hockey players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonyms: DeflectionSynonyms: bending (n), deflexion (n), deviation (n), digression (n), diversion (n), refraction (n), warp (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curvature | Curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion; inflection, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity. |
Deviation | Noun: deviation; swerving; Verb: obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination. |
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 | Deflection point bars on the Little Blue River watershed preventing bank erosion. Kansas.Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918. Note wartime modifications, including removal of some of the seven-inch and three-inch broadside guns and fitting of blast deflection shields on the "cage" mast fire control positions.Credit: NAVY. |
| In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918. Note wartime modifications, including removal of some of the seven-inch and three-inch broadside guns and fitting of blast deflection shields on the "cage" mast fire control positions.Credit: NAVY. | ||
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| "Deflection" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.16% of the time. "Deflection" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.16% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Noun (common) | 0.84% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "deflection": angle of deflection ♦ deflection dike ♦ deflection plane ♦ deflection wedge ♦ deflection yoke ♦ rudder deflection ♦ wind deflection. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "deflection": deflection-displaying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "deflection"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | afwyking (aberrance, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, anomaly, deviation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | devijim (deviation, digression, dip, diversion, ramp, shunt), thyerje (break, breakage, breaking, breakup, demolition, fracture, milling, refraction, roughness, rupture, split, stamping, transgression, violation), shtrembërim (contortion, defacement, deflexion, deformation, distortion, misrepresentation, mutilation, perversion, warp), shmangie (aberration, avoidance, declination, deflexion, departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion, elusion, evasion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep, swerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإنعطاف, إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), إنعطاف (detour, return, sinuosity, turn), إزاغة (deflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, shunt, swerve, turnout, variation), еластичност (bounce, contractility, deflexion, ductility, elasticity, give, pliability, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, stretch, tension), пречупване (deflexion, refraction), извиване (deflexion, twist, wring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偏折 (Deflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výkyv, výchylka, odklon (departure), odchylka (aberration, deviance, deviation, divergence, divergency, irregularity, variance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | deflektion (deflexion), defleksion, udbøjning (bowing, buckle, deflexion), nedboejning, nedbøjning (bending, deflexion, flexure), afvigen (deflexion), afvigelse (aberrance, aberration, bias, deflexion, departure, deviance, deviation, error, nonconformity, variance, variation, violation), afboejning (diffraction), afbøjning (diffraction, slew rate, slewing rate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doorbuiging (deflexion), deflexie (deflexion), deflectio (deflexion), deflectie, verdraaien (contort, travel, twist), afwýking (aberrance, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, anomaly, deviation), afbuiging. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | dekliniĝo (deviation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poikkeama (aberration, anomaly, because of heterogeneities in the workpiece, declination, defect, deficiency, deviate, deviation, deviation of a hole from the intended path, disturbance, drift, e.g., lateral loss, lateral misalignment, offset, systematic variation, variation, wander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déviation (detour, deviate, deviation, deviousness), déflexion (deflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausschlag (decisive factor, eruption, movement, rash, swing, travel), ablenkung (aversion, deviation, distaction, distraction, diversion, refraction), Durchbiegung (bend, bow, bowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκτροπή (aberrance, aberration, change of course, deflexion, deviousness, diverging, diversion, outrage, precession, temporary diversion), απόκλιση (declination, deflexion, deformation, departure, deviation, deviation from stated shape, diffluence, difluence, discrepance, divergence, fluctuation, gap, squint, squint-angle, to deflect, variation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "סט (deviation), "סח (deviation, distraction, diversion, removal, turning aside), סיט" (digression, diversion), סטי" (aberration, bias, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion, perversion, swerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | behajlás (deflexion), megvetemedés (deflexion, distortion, spring, warpage), eltérés (aberration, deflexion, deviation, difference, digression, discrepancy, divergence, divergency, diversion, margin, out of alignment, precession, variance, variation), elhajlítás (deflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | defleksi, penyimpangan (deviation, digression), pengelakan (avoidance, evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | deviazione della perfora (deviation), deviazione del foro (deviation), deviazione (aberration, alternative routing, bias, by-pass, departure, detour, deviation, diversion, diverted line, diverted route, diverted track, indirect route, offset, relief road, shunt, swerve, temporary diversion, variation), deflessione (deflexion), sterzata (swerve, travel), mutamento di direzione del foro (deviation), Inflessione (inflection, inflexion), freccia (arch rise, arrow, bolt, boom, dart, height of an arch, height of arch, indicator, jib-boom, jibheaded topsail, jigger, leader, leading shoot, rise, sagging, terminal, versed sine, wisdom), flessione (decrease, deflexion, diffraction, dip, drop, flection, flexing, flexion, flexure, inflection, inflexion), corsa (draw, journey, lift, race, racing, ride, run, running, rush, scramble, sprint, stroke, travel, trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 偏向 (inclination, propensity, tendency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へ"し" (apostasy, change of mind, disguise, eccentricity, inconstancy, metamorphosis, reply, transformation, veering), へ"さ (declination, deviation, drift, variation), へ""う (alteration, change, inclination, modification, partiality, polarization, polarized light, propensity, tendency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 편향도 (Deflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eflectionday desvio (aberrance, aberration, alternate route, alternation, alternative route, alternative routing, branch line, break, by-pass, canting, crossroad, deflexion, demerge, departure, detour, deviance, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digression, diverge, diversity, drift, fore-and-aft vibration, hijacking, junction, leakage, longitudinal vibration, meander, misapplication, offset, range, relief road, re-routing, roundabout, set, shunt, sidetrack, siding, slip, span, surge, switch, transverse vibration, trap, turn, turnabout, turning, veering, x-axis vibration), deflexão (deflexion, flexure). (various references) deviere (aberration, abnormality, deflexion, departure from, diversion, obliquity, swerve, warp), deflexiune, deflecţie, abatere (anomaly, departure, deviation, digression, error, exception, excursion, kick, licence, license, obliquity, swerve, transgression). (various references) отклонение (aberration, change, declension, departure, derivation, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, error, excursion, inclination, lead, overshoot, rejection, run-away, variation). (various references) skretanje (drift, shunt, turn, turning, veer), izvijanje. (various references) desviación (aberrance, aberration, bias, bypass, change of course, deflexion, departure, detour, deviance, deviate, deviation, deviousness, displacement, diversion, diverted line, diverted track, drift, points, points switch, range, sheer, span, swerve, systematic variation, turnout, variation). (various references) böjning (bending, conjugation, crook, curve, declension, deflexion, diffraction, flection, flexion, flexure, inclination, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, inflexion). (various references) dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp). (various references) схилення (declination), відхилення стрілки приладу, відхилення від прямого напряму, заломлення (refraction). (various references) sự võng xuống (deflexion, sag), sự trẹo đi (deflexion), sự lệch (declination, deflexion, deviation), sự chệch hướng (deflexion), độ võng (deflexion), độ uốn (deflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deflection": deflections. (additional references) | |
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"Deflection" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defelction, D'election, develiction. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "deflection" (pronounced 'De*flec"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation, Acetification, Achromatization, Acidification, Acquisition, Actualization, Actuation, Acuation, Acuition, Acumination, Acupuncturation, Adaptation, Adaption, Addiction, Addition, Adduction, Ademption, Adeption, Adequation, Adfiliation, Adhibition, Adhortation, Adipoceration, Adjection, Adjudication, Adjunction, Adjuration, Adlegation, Adlocution, Admensuration, Administration, Admiration, Admixtion, Admonition, Admortization, Adnation, Adoption, Adoration, Adornation, Adosculation, Adrogation, Adsignification, Adulation, Adulteration, Adumbration, Adunation, Adustion, Advocation, Advolution, Aerification, AEstivation, Affectation, Affection, Affiliation, Affirmation, Afflation, Affliction, Afforestation, Affriction, Aggeneration, Aggeration, Agglomeration, Agglutination, Aggrandization, Aggravation, Aggregation, Agitation, Aglutition, Agnation, Agnition, Agnomination, Agricolation, Alation, Albication, Albification, Alcoholization, Alienation, Alimentation, Alkalization, Allectation, Allegation, Allegorization, Alleviation, Alligation, Alliteration, Allocation, Allocution, Alteration, Altercation, Alutation, Amalgamation, Ambulation, Ambustion, Amelioration, Americanization, Amolition, Amortization, Amotion, Amplexation, Ampliation, Amplification, Amputation, Anaesthetization, Analyzation, Anathematization, Anatomization, Angariation, Anglicization, Angulation, Angustation, Anhelation, Animalization, Animation, Annexation, Annihilation, Annomination, Annotation, Annulation, Annumeration, Annunciation, Anteposition, Antiattrition, Anticipation, Antifriction, Antilibration, Antiquation, Antivaccination, Antivivisection, Antrustion, Apertion, Apocopation, Apostemation, Apparition, Appellation, Appendication, Apperception, Appetition, Application, Apportion, Apposition, Apprecation, Appreciation, Approbation, Appropinquation, Appropriation, Approximation, Aprication, Aration, Arbitration, Arborization, Arctation, Arcuation, Arefaction, Arenation, Areolation, Argentation, Argumentation, Argutation, Arietation, Ariolation, Aromatization, Arrentation, Arreption, Arrestation, Arrogation, Arterialization, Articulation, Ascription, Asexualization, Aspection, Asperation, Asphyxiation, Aspiration, Asportation, Assassination, Assastion, Assecuration, Assecution, Assentation, assertion, Asseveration, Assibilation, Assignation, Assimulation, Association, Assuefaction, Assumption, Astipulation, Astriction, -ation, Atmolyzation, Atomization, Attemperation, Attention, Attenuation, Atterration, Attestation, Attrectation, Attribution, Attrition, Aucupation, Audition, Augmentation, Auguration, Aurigation, Auscultation, Authorization, Autofecundation, Auto-infection, Auto-inoculation, Auto-intoxication, Autosuggestion, Autotoxication, Averruncation, Aversation, Aviation, Avocation, Avolation, Backwardation, Ballotation, Balneation, Balsamation, Bannition, Baptization, Bastion, Beatification, Benediction, Benefaction, Bifurcation, Bilection, Biliation, Bilocation, Bipartition, Bisection, Bituminization, Blandation, Blatteration, Boation, Bolection, Bombilation, Bombination, Botheration, Brutalization, By-election, Cachinnation, Calamistration, Calcification, Calcination, Calcitration, Calculation, Calefaction, Caligation, Callisection, Calorification, Calumniation, Cameration, Canalization, Cancellation, Canceration, Canonization, Cantation, Cantillation, Cantion, Capillation, Capitation, Capitulation, Caprification, Caption, Carbonatation, Carbonization, Carbunculation, Carnation, Carnification, Caseation, Cassation, Castellation, Castigation, Castrametation, Castration, Catechisation, Catenation, Causation, Cauterization, Cavillation, Celebration, Cementation, Cenation, Centesimation, Centralization, Cephalization, Cerebration, Certification, Cessation, Characterization, Chatteration, Chitinization, Chlorination, Chondrification, Chrismation, Christianization, Chylifaction, Chylification, Chymification, Cibation, Cicatrization, Cicuration, Cinefaction, Cineration, Circination, Circuition, Circulation, Circumcursation, Circumdenudation, Circumduction, Circumflection, Circumgestation, Circumgyration, Circumlocution, Circumnavigation, Circumnutation, Circumposition, Circumrotation, Circumscription, Circumspection, Circumvallation, Circumvection, Circumvention, Circumvolation, Circumvolution, Citation, Citrination, Clamation, Clarification, Classification, Claudication, Coacervation, Coaction, Coadaptation, Coadunation, Coadunition, Coagmentation, Coagulation, Coalition, Coaptation, Coarctation, Coarticulation, Coaxation, Coction, Codification, Coeducation, Coemption. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: defection, inflected. | |
-2 letters: deletion, denticle, election, entoiled, flection, infected. | |
-3 letters: centile, cineole, clefted, codeine, confide, ctenoid, decline, deflect, deontic, eloined, enticed, feedlot, feinted, fileted, flinted, inflect, lection, lentoid, licente, noticed, olefine, tenfold. | |
-4 letters: ceiled, cenote, cineol, citole, client, cloned, codein, codlin, coedit, coifed, coiled, coined, confit, deceit, decent, decile, defect, defile, define, delict, deltic, denote, dentil, docent, docile, edenic, encode, endite, enfold, enolic, entice, entoil, etoile, feline, felted, fenced, flited, foetid, foiled, foined, fondle, indole, infect, infold, lectin, lentic, lifted, lofted, noetic, notice, olefin, oleine, toiled. | |
-5 letters: cento, cited, cleft, clift, cline, clone, coden, coled, colin, coned, conte, coted, deice, delft, dicot, diene, dolce, dolci, donee, edict, edile, elect, elfin, elide, elint, elite, eloin, feint, felid, felon, fence, feted, fetid, field, fiend, filed, filet, fined, fleet, flied, flint, flite, indol, inlet, lento, leone, lined, loden, lotic, nicol, niece, noted, often, oiled, olden, oldie, oleic, olein, ontic, teind, telic, teloi, tilde, tiled, tined, toile, toled, tondi, toned, tonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: deflections. | |
+5 letters: overconfidently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 66 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ..-. .-.. . -.-. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100110 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f l e c t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38717278716986758180 |
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