Deflecting
[dɪ'flɛkt]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deflect
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Examples
- The strip, A, is first put under a slight pressure, deflecting the needle a few degrees from zero. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Schweigger of Halle discovered that this deflecting force was increased when the wire was wound several times round the needle, and thus he invented the magnetising helix. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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