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deflection. n. 1. the act of deflecting or the state of being deflected. 2. the amount of deviation. 3. (General Physics) the change in direction of a light beam as it crosses a boundary between two media with different refractive indexes.
American. discovered the ``Hall effect,'' which occurs when charge carriers moving through a material are deflected because of an applied magnetic field-the deflection results in a potential difference across the side of the material that is transverse to both the magnetic field and the current direction.