0 to make something change direction by hitting or touching it, or to change direction after hitting something -- изменять направление, отклоняться от курса
1 to cause attention/blame/criticism, etc to be directed away from you -- отвлекать внимание/отводить от себя вину/критику и т. д.
Public attention to the unsustainability of this trend is deflected by the wartime rhetoric.
Throughout the ages, political entrepreneurs have sought, often with considerable success, to deflect blame for their country's woes to powerless groups.
In this device, the r coordinate oscillation is generated by a conventional galvo-scanner deflecting the beam out of the optical axis.
Nonetheless, it would not be wise to deflect attention completely from paediatric cardiac surgery.
Here the median and peak of the temperature distribution are deflected towards the largescale turbulence region.
In this way, much of the otherwise suppressed and deflected hostility between female affinal and kin relations is expressed through reciprocation and non-reciprocation in gham-khadi.
Large gradients of electron density in this plasma deflect laser rays from their initial trajectories, thus deforming substantially the laser intensity distribution on the target.
Indeed, not only are their envelopes similarly deflected from their progression, but they share the same spatial and spectral progression towards a specific horizontal point.
