deflection
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Deflection and diversion sound similar, so it’s worth pausing for clarification.
From Salon • Aug. 4, 2019
Deflection is brilliant, wicked, and tends to work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2018
Deflection of the arm required application of a force of 0.019 N per degree to the tip of the handle.
From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017
Has anybody started printing "Shaw Shin Deflection" T-shirts yet?
From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 14, 2013
Deflection, on the other hand, is everything in the torpedo-man's problem—the correct estimation of a point of contact of two rapidly moving bodies.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
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