deflection
noun
the act or state of deflecting or the state of being deflected.
deflexion
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a variation of
deflection.
Example Sentences
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But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet.
From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope
At first a considerable current is indicated by the galvanometer; the deflexion soon diminishes, however, and finally becomes very small.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
The hypothetical deflexion alleged by Epicurus was his way, not more unwarranted than the others, of providing a fundamental principle for the unpredictable phenomena of the universe.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
For these, in common with many other untraceable phenomena in the material world, Epicurus provides a principle in the supplementary hypothesis of deflexion.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
"Of what other great men can you equally say it?—and that he has never, but NEVER, had a deflexion?"
From The Coxon Fund by Henry James
