Deflector

Synonyms for "deflector" (2 found)

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Catalan

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  • deflector noun (something which deflects something else)

Hungarian

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  • terelő noun (something which deflects something else)
  • terelőfal noun (something which deflects something else)
  • terelőlap noun (something which deflects something else)

Italian

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  • deflettore noun (something which deflects something else)

Spanish

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  • deflector noun (something which deflects something else)

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Once the asteroids are spotted and their orbits determined, an earthbound asteroid can be nudged slightly off course with a satellite deflector or a high velocity projectile, or blown up with nuclear weapons, causing it to miss its deadly rendezvous.

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.

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