When several waves meet in a vesicle some fragments may deflect, others can annihilate or continue their travel undisturbed.
The timing of the meeting may deflect some pressure off Iran during the United Nations General Assembly session, which will bring Mr. Obama, Mr. Ahmadinejad and other world leaders to New York next week.
His temporary lapse of focus may deflect attention away from another interview in which he strongly suggests that the majority of US Muslims have extremist views.
And though some new wording may deflect political heat, it can't alter the fact that, "climate change" or not, the climate is changing.
By giving in to polluters, Mr. Obama may deflect criticism over red tape and the rule could come back into consideration in 2013.
In theory, a fully-composite beam may deflect more than one without any composite action because of shrinkage-based slab deformations.
He added: "There was no statutory obligation to bring the case to court... A mandatory litigation requirement may deflect clinicians and families from making true best-interests decisions and in some cases lead to inappropriate treatment continuing by default.
However, many experts fear that the government is declaring victory only to appease growing public anger over the accident, and that it may deflect attention from remaining threats to the reactors' safety.
When a hydraulic fracture (HF) is propagated in a shale reservoir, it may deflect and branch via intersections with natural fractures (NF) that exist in the shale, resulting in a dispersed HF-NF network and an enlarged simulated rock volume.
A PUBLIC apology on April 26th by David Komansky, chief executive of Merrill Lynch, for ethical breaches by some of his securities analysts, may deflect some of the bad publicity that has hit Merrill's share price and that may even threaten its survival as an independent firm.
