When a bullet traverses a body the two apertures may be nearly opposite to each other, although the bullet may not have taken a direct course between them, having been deflected by tissues of varying density in its course.
They are slightlydeflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.
According as one pole of the battery or the other was applied to the line by means of the key, the current deflected the needle to one side or the other.
The needle was deflected as it would have been by a certain average current, and the deflection was opposed by the action of the earth's horizontal magnetic field H.
If one of the balls be now taken away without discharging the other, and the latter be placed in the field of a large electrified spherical conductor, the fibre will be deflected from the vertical by the force on the ball.
A large percentage of the constabulary is also deflected from general to special service in affording downright personal protection, and that modified protection known as "looking after" individuals.
Neither designed that his ball should be deflected from that course and pass to another corner of the table.
If the balls strike so and so, they will be deflected so and so.
Phillida alighted from the car in the neighborhood of the Graydon, whose mountainous dimensions deflected the March wind into sudden and disagreeable backsets and whirling eddies that threatened the perpendicularity of foot-passengers.
He entered the Park at the southeast corner, but instead of pushing straight up to the Mall, a childish impulse to take a hurried glance at the animals deflected him toward the old armory.
Now let the magnet be withdrawn from the coil; the needle is deflected as before, but the deflection is in the opposite direction, showing that a current exists, but that it flows in the opposite direction.
The fact that the needle is deflected by the wire shows that the magnetic power of the wire extends into the surrounding medium.
General von Zwehl was one of the iron-jawed battle-scarred warriors of 1870, a man with a will as metallic as his own siege guns, and a man who could no more be deflected from his purpose than a shell could be diverted in its flight.
He spoke with an emphasis which might have struck her, if her sympathies had not again been deflected by the allusion to her son.
Slighter obstacles have deflected the course of events in those indeterminate moments when the soul floats between two tides.
Beatty was not deflected from his course; possibly no other could have been taken.
It and the line of the Seine impeded the encirclement, offered a nucleus of resistance, and provided a screen behind which could be organized a blow against the right flank of the deflected German march.
On his left, a view of the same mural precipice, deflected from the springing of the arch in a manner to pass thence in a continuous curve quite to his rear, and towering in a very impressive manner above his head.
They had no business to be deflected from Peggy and her temper by any such consideration; but it was a point which had occupied their letters for a year, off and on, and there had been bets upon it.
She was deflected by this, and trotted out into the tiny kitchen to light the gas under the hot water heater.
A machine gun bullet struck his belt buckle, wasdeflected and ripped a long gash in the muscles of his abdomen.
Sometimes the tail-plane is mounted on the aeroplane at the same angle as the main surface, but it actually engages the air at a lesser angle, owing to the air being deflected downwards by the main surface.
The word "undisturbed" makes all the difference, for it must be remembered that the rear part of the underside of the surface engages air most of which has been deflected downwards by the surface in front of it.
The skull is very short and wide, with a blunt and slightly deflected rostrum, and a very small pneumatic foramen to the quadrate.
The skull is broad and much depressed, with a comparatively wide, somewhat pointed and deflected beak.
The skull is narrow and vaulted, with a long, sharp and slightly deflected beak.
Whenever a large mass of iron is placed near the compass the magnetic field is distorted and the compass needle is deflected from the true north.
Now, the particle D will resist being deflected from its course and will develop an opposing force represented by the arrow d.
The plane is slightly curved, so that air which is deflected or forced down at the forward edge will continue to press against the plane all the way to the rear edge.
It is very easy to turn the wheels by operating the steering wheel, but if the wheels strike a rut or a stone they are not deflected from their course, because the worm makes it impossible for them to turn the steering wheel.
But the helm of a large vessel, travelling at high speed, could not be so easily deflected were not some giant at work down below in obedience to the easy motions of the wheel.
Immediately afterwards the second hole is uncovered also, and the fresh charge rushes in from the crank case, being deflected upwards by a plate on the top of the piston, so as to help drive out the exhaust products.
The airship, deflectedby the depressed rudder, went lower and lower.
The ship could more readily be sent aloft or deflected toward the earth.
Deflected by some sudden adolescent dreaminess, Daphne was the last to emerge from her tent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deflected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bent; diffuse; dispersed; distorted; scattered; skew; skewed
