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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024de•flec•tion (di flek′shən),USA pronunciation n. - the act or state of deflecting or the state of being deflected.
- amount of deviation.
- the deviation of the indicator of an instrument from the position taken as zero.
- Opticsdeviation (def. 5a).
- Militarythe angle formed by the line of sight to the target and the line of sight to the point at which a gun is aimed so as to strike the target.
- Electronics(in a cathode-ray tube) the bending by a magnetic field of the beam of electrons leaving the electron gun.
Also,[Brit.,] de•flex′ion. - Late Latin dēflexiōn- (stem of dēflexiō), equivalent. to Latin dēflex(us) (past participle of dēflectere; see deflect) + -iōn- -ion
- 1595–1605
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: deflection, deflexion /dɪˈflɛkʃən/ n - the act of deflecting or the state of being deflected
- the amount of deviation
- the change in direction of a light beam as it crosses a boundary between two media with different refractive indexes
- a deviation of the indicator of a measuring instrument from its zero position
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