deflection

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Don't try to soften the message with tired jokes and deflection.

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Quick take

a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of deflection gathered in one view.

noun

a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

noun

the amount by which a propagating wave is bent

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deflection.

noun

a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

noun

the amount by which a propagating wave is bent

noun

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

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the property of being bent or deflected

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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"

Example sentences

Don't try to soften the message with tired jokes and deflection.

In other words, if we assume that the roof can withstand 10cm of deflection, you can drop the car from 40cm up.

"Arringtons game here is pure deflection with an end-goal of humiliating critics as hard as he can.

I am convinced that the deflection is so great by the picture and sound while driving that accidents were due to the increase markedly.

With the speeds/distances involved all of the missiles would be approaching from a very narrow cone, and a small deflection would mean a miss.

I think his deflection of your question suggests he was using them as rhetorical literary devices.

To turn left, the top fin needs to be deflected, while the two angled fins need to be deflected by an amount which can only be computed by the sine and cosine of 2/3 radians times the deflection of the top fin.

This is a positive deflection from the baseline activity in the brain signals approximately 300 milliseconds after an anticipated event occurs.

We can reasonably expect to hit the basketball and maybe even observe a tiny deflection in the first cannonball, but the basketball will be long gone before we can fire a second cannonball and we need several deflections to get even a rudimentary image!