Deflexion

Definitions: Deflexion

Deflexion

Noun

1. The amount by which a propagating wave is bent.

2. The movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position.

3. The property of being bent or deflected.

4. 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".

"Deflexion" is a common misspelling or typo for: defluxion.

Domain	Definitions
Chemical Industry	Bending that causes a change in the normal shape and/or size of a body. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Deflexion

Synonyms: bending (n), deflection (n), deviation (n), digression (n), diversion (n), refraction (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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Language		Translations for "deflexion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtrembërim (contortion, defacement, deflection, deformation, distortion, misrepresentation, mutilation, perversion, warp), shmangie (aberration, avoidance, declination, deflection, departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion, elusion, evasion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep, swerve). (various references)

Arabic		‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), ‏إزاغة (deflection). (various references)

Bulgarian		отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflection, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, shunt, swerve, turnout, variation), еластичност (bounce, contractility, deflection, ductility, elasticity, give, pliability, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, stretch, tension), пречупване (deflection, refraction), извиване (deflection, twist, wring). (various references)

Chinese		偏折 (Deflection). (various references)

Danish		deflektion (deflection), udbøjning (bowing, buckle, deflection), nedbøjning (bending, deflection, flexure), afvigen (deflection), afvigelse (aberrance, aberration, bias, deflection, departure, deviance, deviation, error, nonconformity, variance, variation, violation). (various references)

Dutch		doorbuiging (deflection), deflexie (deflection), deflectio (deflection). (various references)

Farsi		پیچش (Curvature, Torsion, Wrest), خم سازی , انحناء (Curvature, Wind), انحراف (Corruption, Departure, Detour, Deviance, Digression, Inclination, Invert, Leeway, Offset, Perversion, Refraction, Skew, Slope, Veer, Yaw). (various references)

Finnish		taipuma (bend, bow, deflection). (various references)

French		déflexion (deflection), flèche (deflection), braquage (defection, deflection). (various references)

German		Deflexion (deflection), Deflektion (deflection). (various references)

Greek		εκτροπή,παρέκκλισις,απόκλισις,κάμψις (deflection), εκτροπή (aberrance, aberration, change of course, deflection, deviousness, diverging, diversion, outrage, precession, temporary diversion), απόκλιση (declination, deflection, deformation, departure, deviation, deviation from stated shape, diffluence, difluence, discrepance, divergence, fluctuation, gap, squint, squint-angle, to deflect, variation). (various references)

Hungarian		megvetemedés (deflection, distortion, spring, warpage), kitérés (deflection, digression, diversion, dodge, evasion, excursion, jink, precession, roundabout, yaw), kilengés (amplitude, deflection, excursion, sway, swing), eltérés (aberration, deflection, deviation, difference, digression, discrepancy, divergence, divergency, diversion, margin, out of alignment, precession, variance, variation), elhajlítás (deflection), behajlás (deflection). (various references)

Italian		deflessione (deflection), flessione (decrease, deflection, diffraction, dip, drop, flection, flexing, flexion, flexure, inflection, inflexion). (various references)

Korean		편향도 (Deflection). (various references)

Pig Latin		eflexionday

Portuguese		desvio (aberrance, aberration, alternate route, alternation, alternative route, alternative routing, branch line, break, by-pass, canting, crossroad, deflection, 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 (deflection, flexure). (various references)

Romanian		deviere (aberration, abnormality, deflection, departure from, diversion, obliquity, swerve, warp). (various references)

Russian		прогиб (deflection, hogging, sag, swayback, whipping), преломление (refraction). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		defleksija. (various references)

Spanish		desviación (aberrance, aberration, bias, bypass, change of course, deflection, departure, detour, deviance, deviate, deviation, deviousness, displacement, diversion, diverted line, diverted track, drift, points, points switch, range, sheer, span, swerve, systematic variation, turnout, variation), desplazamiento (components of displacement, crowding out, deflection, displacement, electric flux density, lag, misalignment, passenger trip, person trip, shift, spread, travel), deflexión (deflection). (various references)

Swedish		böjning (bending, conjugation, crook, curve, declension, deflection, diffraction, flection, flexion, flexure, inclination, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, inflexion), avvikelse (aberrancy, absconding, anomaly, declension, deflection, departure, deviation, digress, digression, discrepancy, disorder, divergence, divergency, droop, error, irregularity, limit of tolerance, nominal deviation, perturbation, swerve, variation, violation). (various references)

Turkish		dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự võng xuống (deflection, sag), sự trẹo đi (deflection), sự lệch (declination, deflection, deviation), sự chệch hướng (deflection), độ võng (deflection), độ uốn (deflection). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "deflexion" (pronounced 'De*flex"ion'): Adfluxion, Affixion, Affluxion, Annexion, Antecommunion, Anteflexion, Anthelion, Aphelion, Brunion, Circumflexion, Commixion, Communion, Complexion, Connexion, Crucifixion, Defluxion, Discomplexion, Disfashion, Disopinion, Disunion, Dominion, Effluxion, Excommunion, Fanion, flexion, fluxion, Franion, Gorgoneion, Implexion, inflexion, Influxion, Innixion, intercommunion, Mandilion, Menaion, Misfashion, Misopinion, Noncommunion, Nonunion, Onion, Parhelion, Pommelion, Postcomminion, Postilion, Prefixion, Preopinion, Pumpion, refashion, retroflexion, reunion, Self-communion, Self-opinion, Selion, Suffixion, tatterdemalion, Transexion, Transfixion, Union, Unpinion, Virmilion, Wanion. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-x"
	-1 letter: inflexed.
	-2 letters: eloined, flexion, olefine.
	-3 letters: defile, define, enfold, exiled, feline, flexed, foiled, foined, fondle, indole, infold, olefin, oleine.
	-4 letters: dexie, diene, donee, doxie, edile, elfin, elide, eloin, exile, exine, felid, felon, field, fiend, filed, fined, fixed, flied, foxed, index, indol, leone, lined, loden, loxed, nixed, oiled, olden, oldie, olein, oxide.
	-5 letters: defi, deil, dele, delf, deli, dene, deni, diel, dine, diol, dole, done, eide, enol, exon, feed, feel, fend, feod, fido, file, filo, find, fine, fino, fled, flee, flex, floe, foil, foin, fold, fond, idle, idol, ilex, info, lend, leno, lido, lied, lief, lien, life, line, lino, lion, lode, loin, lone, need, neif, nide, nixe, node, nodi, noel, noil, oxen, oxid.
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