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Usage examples of deflection.

Between deflection by air-currents and the dodging of the enemy vessels our effective range is shortened to a few kilometers, and their beams are deadly at that distance.

Elevation and Deflection Drills, it is best that you become familiarized with the dimensions of the following targets and the ranges at which each is used.

After one day slight deflection, but the cauterised mark was so faint that the same side was again touched with caustic.

It was twice refixed, with nearly similar results, that is, it caused slight deflection, which soon disappeared.

In the plane of the bean itself the deflection amounted to 8o or 9o from the vertical and from the card, in opposition to Sachs' curvature.

In four days from the first touch deflection amounted to 78o, which in an additional day increased to 90o.

On the fifth day deflection amounted to 45o from the perpendicular, and this on the seventh day increased to about 90o.

Moreover, some of the four failures can hardly be considered as really failures: thus, in one of them, in which the radicle remained quite straight, the square of thin paper was found, when both were removed from the apex, to have been so thickly coated with shellac that it was almost as stiff as the card: in the second case, the radicle was bent upwards into a semicircle, but the deflection was not directly from the side bearing the card, and this was explained by the two squares having become cemented laterally together, forming a sort of stiff gable, from which the radicle was deflected: in the third case, the square of card had been fixed by mistake in front, and though there was deflection from it, this might have been due to Sachs' curvature: [page 149] in the fourth case alone no reason could be assigned why the radicle had not been at all deflected.

Perched on the roof tack the AK 47 slung over one shoulder, Craig took a sight with the hand-bearing compass from Timon's map-case, made a rough calculation of the magnetic deflection, and called down to Timon.

And it is hard to control the blade, given the smoothness of the metal, the speed of the exchanges, the deflections of the parrying.

As he swam he tried to judge the feel of the current on his body, its turnings, its deflections, as it was shaped by the contour of the banks, the irregularities of the riverbed.

If you push a philosophical or metaphysical inquiry through a series of valid syllogisms—never committing any generally recognised fallacy—you nevertheless leave a certain rubbing and marginal loss of objective truth and you get deflections that are difficult to trace, at each phase in the process.

Though a lawyer by profession, Hadley had a keen interest in the weather (he was, after all, English) and also suggested a link between his cells, the Earth’s spin, and the apparent deflections of air that give us our trade winds.

Certainly the arrival of ETs deflected our history—and those exploding stars in the sky tell of more deflections yet to come.

It was a time in my life in which various people, including a Jesuit and my long-lost sister, seemed to have little difficulty keeping me away from awkward truths with simple deflections and guile.