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

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

I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

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

The No. 20 Toyota driven by Christopher Bell for Joe Gibbs Racing also received the same L1 penalties regarding rear-window air deflectors and crew chief Adam Stevens was ejected.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021

"But so far," Tom reasoned, "there's no cause to suppose they know anything about the quake deflectors."

From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]