NOUN
- the property of being bent or deflected
- the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
- the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
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a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
a digression into irrelevant details
a diversion from the main highway
a deflection from his goal
How To Use deflexion In A Sentence
- But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
- The maximal deflexion and drive force of PLZT bimorph driver under ultraviolet illumination were attained from material dynamics analysis.
- Winnepeseogee and the Pemigewasset Rivers, and then it turns and runs twenty-five or thirty miles in a northeasterly direction to its mouth; and this deflexion in the current caused the dispute. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
- Grammar concerning the kinds of words, their derivations, deflexions, and syntax; specially enriching the same with the helps of several languages, with their differing proprieties of words, phrases, and tropes; they might have found out more and better footsteps of common reason, help of disputation, and advantages of cavillation, than many of these which they have propounded. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
- He took it as distinct that there was nothing he could do in preference that wouldn't be spoiled for him by any deflexion from that point. The Tragic Muse
- The fine grains, crack deflexion and grain bridging are main toughening mechanisms of silicon carbide ceramic.
- I see now of course how far, with my complications, I got away from Gyp; but I see to-day so much else too that this particular deflexion from simplicity makes scarce a figure among the others after having once served its purpose, I mean, of lighting my original imitative innocence. The Awkward Age
- Anticipation is but a deflexion or declination by accident. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
- In moderate deflexion, the occiput and sinciput meet the pelvic floor simultaneously, no internal rotation and the head persists in the oblique diameter.
- For I find no sufficient or competent collection of the works of Nature which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course of generations, productions, and motions; whether they be singularities of place and region, or the strange events of time and chance, or the effects of yet unknown properties, or the instances of exception to general kinds. The Advancement of Learning
