Deflected

Examples

• Thus, if the two extreme needles were deflected inwards, one towards the left and the other towards the right, they would point to the letter _A_ at the top of the rhomb. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The panic of 1837 closed the mills, and Howe found his course deflected to work in a machine-shop in Cambridge. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A warm ocean current like the Gulf Stream may be deflected, and flow so as to warm one side of the barrier, leaving the other still cold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of the magnetic needles acted as a detent which held a weight suspended, and when the needle was deflected, the weight fell upon a bell. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In 1819 he had announced that the plane of po lari zed light--for example, a ray passed through Iceland spar--is deflected to right or left by various chem ical substances. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When any of the needles was deflected by sending an electric current through the surrounding coil, the screen was withdrawn and exposed the letter behind. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A thin knife-edge partition board, arranged below the falling sheets of sand, separates the deflected magnetic particles from the straight-falling sand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The fact that the needle is deflected by the wire shows that the magnetic power of the wire extends into the surrounding medium. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One of his telegraphs made the signals by sounds, produced by magnetic needles striking, when deflected, against bells of different tones. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I don't flatter myself that my coming has deflected your course of action by a hair's breadth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Edited by Bryan