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Deflector
noun
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Noun
- 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 a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc.) wordnet
- 3 A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion.
- 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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