Usually means: Deviation from an intended path.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. deflection: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deflection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deflection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deflection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deflection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deflection, deflection: Wordnik
  7. deflection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deflection: Wiktionary
  9. deflection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deflection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deflection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deflection: Dictionary.com
  13. Deflection (ballistics), Deflection (chess), Deflection (engineering), Deflection (military), Deflection (physics), Deflection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Deflection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deflection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deflection: Rhymezone
  17. Deflection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deflection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. deflection: Free Dictionary
  20. deflection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. deflection: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. Deflection: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. deflection: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deflection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. deflection: Medical dictionary

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  1. Deflection: Chess Dictionary
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noun:  The act of deflecting or something deflected.
noun:  Deviation (of a needle or other indicator or mechanism) from a previous position.
noun:  (figuratively) The act of refusing to address something (questions, criticism, etc.).
noun:  Bending or deformation under load.

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