DEFLECTION Antonyms

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines

• (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

• the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other

• free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

• the quality of clear water

• the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume

• the spatial property of being crowded together

• strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material

• increase in density

• complete attention; intense mental effort

• bringing together military forces

• great and constant diligence and attention

• trueness of course toward a goal

• the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

• the quality of being exact

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

• the concentration of attention or energy on something

• maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system

• maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea

• a central point or locus of an infection in an organism

• special emphasis attached to something

• a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

• a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

• direct one's attention on something

• cause to converge on or toward a central point

• bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

• become focussed or come into focus

• put (an image) into focus

• the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

• (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl

• freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles

• trueness of course toward a goal

• having honest intentions

• a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex