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n.
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
v. i.
To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
n.
A bending or turning aside; deflection.
a.
Causing deflection.
v. t.
To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
v. t.
To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
n.
A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.
a.
Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air.
v. t.
To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
v. i.
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
a.
Capable of being deflected.
v. t.
To free from inflections.
n.
The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.
a.
Bent; turned; deflected.
n.
See Deflection.
v. t.
To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
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n.
That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
n.
The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
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