deflection
/dɪˈflekʃən/dih-FLEK-shuhn
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/dɪˈflɛkʃən/dih-FLEK-shuhn
Meaningthe act of deflecting
Common meaning: a turning aside
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- dedown, away, off; undoing
- flectto bendLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 758 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘down, away, off’ + ‘to bend’ → deflection
Journey through time
- Latinflectō, flexī, flexum‘to bend’
- Englishdeflect‘to turn aside’
- Englishformed in English from deflectdeflection‘a turning aside’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from deflect + -ion.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), DEFLECT, p.158 · scan
Roots
- flectō, flexī, flexum Latin “to bend”
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