1. Character Quotes
  2. detour vs deflection

different between detour vs deflection

detour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?di?.t??(?)/, /?di?.t??(?)/

Noun

detour (plural detours)

  1. A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
      On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

See also

  • bypass
  • roundabout

Translations

Verb

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

  1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
  2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Drouet, douter, redout, routed, toured

Middle English

Noun

detour

  1. Alternative form of dettour

detour From the web:

  • what detour means
  • what determines blood type
  • what determines the value of an item
  • what determines the identity of an atom
  • what determines the sex of a baby
  • what determines the identity of an element
  • what determines stock price
  • what determines the function of a specialized cell

deflection

English

Alternative forms

  • deflexion (British)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??fl?k??n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /d??fl?k??n/
  • Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

deflection (countable and uncountable, plural deflections)

  1. The act of deflecting or something deflected.
    • 1918, H. G. Wells, Joan and Peter
      The next morning Oswald stopped short in the middle of his shaving, which in his case involved the most tortuous deflections and grimacings.
  2. The deviation of a needle or other indicator from its previous position.

Translations

deflection From the web:

  • what deflection means
  • what's deflection in engineering
  • what's deflection in physics
  • what deflection means in spanish
  • what's deflection angle
  • what deflection and slope
  • what deflection for tile
  • what's deflection in chess
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like

Copyright © 2024 Quotes