Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plate, diaphragm, or cone in a lamp, furnace, or stove, to bring the flame and gases into intimate contact and improve the combustion.
- n. A device for causing the nozle of a hydraulic mining machine to move in any desired direction.
- n. In general, something which deflects. Specifically— A plate or board which is projected into a current of gas or air to cause it to flow to one side.
- n. See the extract.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mech.) 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).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc)
Etymologies
- deflect + -or (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The total system provides energy for its primary application, propelling the USS Enterprise through space, as well as its secondary application, powering the defensive shields, phaser arrays, tractor beam, main deflector, and computer cores.”
“The Enterprise B was an Excelsior Refit class which had added impulse engines on the saucer and an expanded scoop around the main deflector dish.”
“Bounce a graviton particle beam, off the main deflector dish,”
“Engineers designed a sandwich using a second injection-molded part: A separately produced oil deflector, which is vibration-welded onto the flat section of the pan, helps to calm the oil churned by the crankshaft and balance shaft.”
“Palestinian effort to achieve recognition by the United Nations as an attention deflector.”
The Huffington Post: MJ Rosenberg: Fight The Power: Israeli Demonstrators Show The Way
“It was improved with the addition of a dust cover and forward assist button with later improvements being the brass deflector and the raised metal around the magazine release.”
“They do have deflector shields, but they are currently inoperative.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
“Rosado replied, Minor hull buckling on deck eleven, near deflector control.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
“Positioned beyond the base of the deflector dish and also holding a tricorder, Lieutenant Commander Taurik replied, The umbilical cabling is retracting normally, Commander.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
“Considering how many times La Forge had been called upon to rig the deflector to channel power in some unorthodox manner for one reason or another—and almost always while trying to resolve an emergency situation or deal with a threat to the Enterprise—if a new model of the unit was available, then he wanted it.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deflector’.
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defense
shield, aegis, armor, cuirass, plastron, inured, reinforced, cataphract, proof, targus, buckler, shield bearer and 123 more...
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Mundane Transformers
Bore that meets the eye.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Star Trek and Star Wars
Ridiculous American cheese, but entertaining all the same.
navigational shields, antiprotons, deflector, superluminal, spock, vulcan, warp speed, warp, captain, united earth, lieutenant, commander and 51 more...
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The Final Frontier....
...a work in progress
tachyon, matter, anti-matter, warp, transwarp, klingon, vulcan, romulan, tractor beam, deflector, wormhole, nebula and 3 more...
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