deflect
The deflections steer the electrons into patterns known to mathematicians and physicists as caustics.
For decades he has been on the public stage and yet he remains inscrutable, a cagey master of deflection.
That was a nice attempt at deflection but I'm going to ask you the question again!
The decision to campaign on taxation provides a neat deflection from discussion about health and crime, two areas where the government is weak.
Deflection is a deliberate tactic in which any attempt to talk about feelings or behaviour is met with a barrage of argument and blame of others.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing direction
about-face
about-turn
bear
branch off
break
cut
decoy
do an about-face
do an about-turn
excursive
excursively
flippy
regear
reverse
slew
someone's back is turnedidiom
swerve
turn around
turn off (something)
wheel

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Avoiding action
Blaming & accusing

Examples of deflection

deflection
The deflection would result in resistance tending to return the system to its initial position.
In the second part, the measured densities are under estimated because of the deflection of the probe light.
The position of the cantilever is monitored by the deflection of a detecting laser.
The main disadvantage of compliant mechanisms is the difficulty of analysis due to nonlinearities in the geometry of mechanisms during large deflections.
These adverse experiences in themselves may result in further neurobiological deflection of development, that then increase the likelihood of later adverse experiences.
Both the proposed axial deflection model and nonlinear mechanics model approach were experimented.
The initial negative deflection in the response is the a-wave, which results from the suppression of the circulating current of the photoreceptors.
It is at the post-resolution hitch that he lowers his volume again to its level before the post-onset deflection.
If the same closed-loop poles of vertical deflections of last two links are selected, our method will become simple to implement.
The key to designing this controller is to include the base elastic deflections directly in the objective function of the neural network.
Although this model seems too simple to represent the environment, it captures the important characteristic that contact force on most passive objects increases with deflection.
This implies that the final position is reached by overcoming the resistance to the deflection of the arm from the initial position.
Due to the integration over the volume of the sensor the internal energy can be expressesd in terms of general forces and general deflections.
The deflections are used to compute the stiffness forces in the direction of element axis as well as the stiffness moment.
During a third mode of operation, 'force-distance measurement', the cantilever is slowly lowered towards the surface and its deflection is constantly recorded.
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