deflector
Americannoun
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deflectors
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SpaceX also said it made “significant reinforcements” of the launch pad’s foundation and added a flame deflector intended to prevent future launch pad damage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
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
I look down at my illness deflector yawning open my sweatshirt pocket.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
The last of those have worried Russian military leaders enough that some of the tanks seen massing on the borders are sporting new deflectors, like a metal umbrella, to deceive the missile’s homing systems.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
The inside of the box is smooth, there being no deflectors, as its shape is such as to fold the batch repeatedly and thus accomplish the mixing.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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