DEFLECTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
   Synonym(s)
   • deflexion (what does deflexion mean?)
   • deviation (what does deviation mean?)
   • digression (what does digression mean?)
   • divagation (what does divagation mean?)
   • diversion (what does diversion mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a diversion from the main highway
   • a digression into irrelevant details
   • a deflection from his goal
   Hypernyms(s) deflection is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • turn (what does turn mean?)
   • turning (what does turning mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • red herring (what does red herring mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • digress (what does digress mean?)
   • stray (what does stray mean?)
   • divagate (what does divagate mean?)
   • wander (what does wander mean?)
   • deflect (what does deflect mean?)
   • bend (what does bend mean?)
   • turn away (what does turn away mean?)
   • deflect (what does deflect mean?)
   • deviate (what does deviate mean?)
   • deflect (what does deflect mean?)
   • bend (what does bend mean?)
   • turn away (what does turn away mean?)
   • deflect (what does deflect mean?)
   • deviate (what does deviate mean?)
   • digress (what does digress mean?)
   • stray (what does stray mean?)
   • divagate (what does divagate mean?)
   • wander (what does wander mean?)
   • deflect (what does deflect mean?)
   • deviate (what does deviate mean?)
   • deviate (what does deviate mean?)
   • deviate (what does deviate mean?)
   • divert (what does divert mean?)
   • deviate (what does deviate mean?)
   • divert (what does divert mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the property of being bent or deflected
   Synonym(s)
   • bending (what does bending mean?)
   • deflexion (what does deflexion mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) deflection is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • physical property (what does physical property mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • windage (what does windage mean?)
   • wind deflection (what does wind deflection mean?)
   • refractivity (what does refractivity mean?)
   • refractiveness (what does refractiveness mean?)
3. Meaning
   • the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
   Synonym(s)
   • deflexion (what does deflexion mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) deflection is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • movement (what does movement mean?)
   • motion (what does motion mean?)
4. Meaning
   • the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
   Synonym(s)
   • deflexion (what does deflexion mean?)
   • refraction (what does refraction mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) deflection is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • bending (what does bending mean?)
   • bend (what does bend mean?)
5. Meaning
   • a twist or aberration
   • especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
   Synonym(s)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) deflection is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • aberrance (what does aberrance mean?)
   • aberrancy (what does aberrancy mean?)
   • aberration (what does aberration mean?)
   • deviance (what does deviance mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • falsify (what does falsify mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • garble (what does garble mean?)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)