Deflector

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something which deflects something else, especially a stream of fluid or particles.

    "1992 Nasa Patents Available for Licensing from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center The deflector assembly contains a plurality of vanes which change the direction of the solar energy to the vertical, while constantly keeping the same side of the deflector facing the sun."

  2. 2
    a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc.) wordnet
  3. 3
    A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion.
  4. 4
    A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield.

    "The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them."

Etymology

From deflect + -or.

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