deflector

American  

[di-flekt-er] / dɪˈflɛkt ər /

noun

• deflectors
  plural

1. any device or structure that serves to deflect something so as to change its course.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• deflectors
  plural

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Example Sentences

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deflector deflectors

What Donald does, and he's excellent at it, he's the great deflector.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2023

Place shrimp on the cooking grate directly over the heat deflector plate with the lid down.

From Washington Times ● May 28, 2023

The pair then go after Gideon, which requires them to pass through multiple deflector shields, guarded by troopers with increasingly more powerful weaponry.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

He is an accomplished résumé padder, an expert with the evasive fallback answer when challenged, a skillful deflector of the awkward question, a quibbler par excellence and just stunningly self-confident.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

So I tell her about Jamie instead, because it’s a good deflector.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

The upper fairing is wider, as is the lower fairing—including gill-like deflectors that can be opened or closed for the rider’s comfort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Using carefully placed electric fields generated by deflectors, they controlled the incident energies of the charged particles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

McLaren's day was afflicted by reliability problems, which saw the team have to reinforce the air deflectors over the front wheels and manage fewer laps than many of their rivals.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023

Sound walls and light deflectors will dampen the noise and headlights of the roughly 300,000 vehicles that pass through the area daily.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

A convoy of robot deflectors and screens cleared the Extractor fleet's path of meteoroids, sand and rock swarms and space debris.

From The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

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