deflector
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deflector (plural deflectors)
- 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.
- 1992 Nasa Patents Available for Licensing from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
- A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion.
- (science fiction) A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield.
- 1945 May, Murray Leinster, “First Contact”, in Astounding Stories, volume 35, number 3:
- 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.
- 1966 September 22, Samuel A. Peeples, Where No Man Has Gone Before (Star Trek), episode 3, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
- Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative.
- 1988 March 21, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
- PICARD: If the Romulans have returned to this sector we should know about that. Mister Worf, any further activity?
WORF: Negative, sir.
PICARD: Slow to half impulse.
LAFORGE: Going to one half impulse. ... Now entering quadrant nine-zero-seven, mark three.
PICARD: Shields and deflectors up. Go to Yellow Alert.
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Latin edit
Verb edit
dēflector
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French déflecteur.
Noun edit
deflector n (plural deflectoare)
Declension edit
Declension of deflector
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) deflector | deflectorul | (niște) deflectoare | deflectoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) deflector | deflectorului | (unor) deflectoare | deflectoarelor |
vocative | deflectorule | deflectoarelor |
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Adjective edit
deflector (feminine deflectora, masculine plural deflectores, feminine plural deflectoras)
Noun edit
deflector m (plural deflectores)
Further reading edit
- “deflector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014