- a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
- a diversion from the main highway
- a digression into irrelevant details
- a deflection from his goal
Synonym: diversiondeviationdigressiondeflectiondivagation
- the property of being bent or deflected
Synonym: deflectionbending
- the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
Synonym: deflection
- the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
Synonym: deflectionrefraction