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Deflexion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of deflection.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of deflection.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See deflection.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See deflection.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the property of being bent or deflected

n. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

n. the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position

n. the amount by which a propagating wave is bent

Word Usage

"At other times still, a person would raise a hand or gesture in passing, manoeuvres which would in normal contexts seem innocent, yet combined as they were by those other intrusions I have mentioned, were such a deflexion from everyday comportment that I was quite puzzled as to their meaning."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

movement motion bend bending

Variant

deflection

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