Usually means: Turning aside or changing direction.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. deflective: Merriam-Webster
  2. deflective: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deflective: Vocabulary.com
  4. deflective: Wordnik
  5. deflective: Wiktionary
  6. deflective: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Deflective, deflective: Dictionary.com
  8. Deflective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. deflective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. deflective: Rhymezone
  11. Deflective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. deflective: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deflective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. deflective: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflective: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflective: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  capable of causing deflection.

Similar:
crooked, refractive, inflective, divertable, divertible, avertible, reflexible, redirectable, detractable, reflectable, more...

Opposite:
reflective, absorptive, permeable

Types:
refractive, diffractive, dispersive, reflective, more...

Phrases:
deflective occlusal contact, deflective forces, deflective malocclusion, more...

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Similar:
crooked, refractive, inflective, divertable, divertible, avertible, reflexible, redirectable, detractable, reflectable, more...

Opposite:
reflective, absorptive, permeable

Types:
refractive, diffractive, dispersive, reflective, more...

Phrases:
deflective occlusal contact, deflective forces, deflective malocclusion, more...



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