deflexion
- a variation of deflection.
Example Sentences
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This is done by changing the weight of the disk by means of additional weights and by making a second reading of the angles of deflexion.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
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 Pope, Saxton
And that all Anticipation is but a deflexion or declination by accident.
From Valerius Terminus; of the interpretation of nature by Bacon, Francis
Nor can he "easily beleeve that Grant was turned into Cam; for this might seeme a deflexion some what too hardly streined, wherein all the letters but one are quite swallowed up."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
In Azaleas a curious deflexion of the parts of the flower may occasionally be met with.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
