Crossword-Solution: DEFLECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deflection | n. | The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. |
| Deflection | n. | The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. |
| Deflection | n. | A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction. |
| Deflection | n. | The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “DEFLECTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the property of being bent or deflected | 1 answer |
| an act of bending or turning away | 1 answer |
| Turning aside cast in Cold Feet | 1 answer |
| Shield's purpose | 1 answer |
| the amount by which a propagating wave is bent | 1 answer |
| the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position | 1 answer |
| deflexion | 2 answers |
| change the path or direction of something | 2 answers |
| swerving | 5 answers |
| veering | 9 answers |
| Yaw | 12 answers |
| Tack | 36 answers |
| Detour | 39 answers |
| Diversion | 46 answers |
| Swerve | 48 answers |
| Veer | 50 answers |
| bending | 56 answers |
| Digression | 59 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
| Departure | 64 answers |
| turning | 64 answers |
| BEND ___ | 75 answers |
| Double | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DEFLECTION (5)
Listening nature seemed not to contradict him, so that, on the morrow, he asked the young girl, with an infinitesimal touch of irony, whether it struck her that his deflection from his Florentine plan had been attended with brilliant results.
These higher and finer cloud fabrics were evidently produced by the chilling of the air from its own expansion caused by the upward deflection of the wind against the slopes of the mountain.
The next day Traquair appeared like a man who had gone under the harrows; and his lady wife thenceforward continued in her old course without the least deflection.
The hilltop, the cool air of the night, the company of the great monuments, the sight of the city under his feet, with its hills and valleys and crossing files of lamps, drew him by all he had of the poetic, and he turned that way; and by that quite innocent deflection, ripened the crop of his venial errors for the sickle of destiny.
Scientific people, however, found the intelligence remarkable enough, even before it became known that the new body was rapidly growing larger and brighter, that its motion was quite different from the orderly progress of the planets, and that the deflection of Neptune and its satellite was becoming now of an unprecedented kind.
Quotes with DEFLECTION (3)
Darkness does something to a place, doesn’t it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.
The three of you were pretty cute last night, with all that touchy-feely crap.""Yeah, that lasted for about two minutes before you dragged Evan back over to the bar.""Dude, we were hunting Turkey. [drinking bourbon] it was important." Chris grins. "That boy can drink, I'll give him that." "That's big of you. From the way you were hanging off each other by the end of the night, I was thinking I might get Jeff all to myself." Chris shoots him a look. "Is that what you want? If …
Of the not very many ways known of shedding one's body, falling, falling, falling is the supreme method, but you have to select your sill or ledge very carefully so as not to hurt yourself or others. Jumping from a high bridge is not recommended even if you cannot swim, for wind and water abound in weird contingencies, and tragedy ought not to culminate in a record dive or a policeman's promotion. If you rent a cell in the luminous waffle, room 1915 or 1959, in a tall busines…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).