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deflection

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de=flec=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

deflection, n. (also deflexion)
1 the act or process of deflecting or being deflected.
2 a lateral bend or turn; a deviation.
3 Physics the displacement of a pointer on an instrument from its zero position.

Etymology
LL deflexio (as DEFLECT)

THESAURUS

deflection

L, S-curve, aberration, angle, apex, atmospheric attenuation, bend, bending, bifurcation, bight, blind spots, bow, bowing, cant, chevron, circuitousness, clutter, coin, conflexure, corner, crank, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, declination, defile, deflexure, deflower, departing, departure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, diffraction, diffusion, digression, dispersion, distortion, divagation, divergence, diversion, dogleg, elbow, ell, excursion, false echoes, flection, flex, flexure, force, fork, furcation, geanticline, geosyncline, ground clutter, hairpin turn, hook, indirection, indirectness, inflection, knee, meander, nonconformity, nook, obliqueness, obliquity, outrage, oxbow, point, quoin, ravish, reflection, refraction, scatter, sea clutter, skewness, spoil, squint, superrefraction, sweep, swerve, swerving, torsion, transverseness, turn, turning, twisting, vagary, veer, veering, vertex, violate, zag, zig, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

deflection

Curvature

N 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, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.


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