Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plate, diaphragm, or cone in a lamp, furnace, or stove, to bring the flame and gases into intimate contact and improve the combustion.
- noun A device for causing the nozle of a hydraulic mining machine to move in any desired direction.
- noun In general, something which deflects.
- noun See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something which
deflects something else, especially astream offluid orparticles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Bounce a graviton particle beam, off the main deflector dish,
Snow, and other things. deep_bluze 2005
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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.
All DN headlines 2008
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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.
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They do have deflector shields, but they are currently inoperative.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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Palestinian effort to achieve recognition by the United Nations as an attention deflector.
MJ Rosenberg: Fight The Power: Israeli Demonstrators Show The Way MJ Rosenberg 2011
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Rosado replied, Minor hull buckling on deck eleven, near deflector control.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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Palestinian effort to achieve recognition by the United Nations as an attention deflector.
MJ Rosenberg: Fight The Power: Israeli Demonstrators Show The Way MJ Rosenberg 2011
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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.
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