Word Meanings - DEFLECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp .

WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
DIAPHRAGM
The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff. (more info) 1. A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
FURNACE
1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note:
DIAPHRAGMATIC
Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.
PERNOT FURNACE
A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
ALMOND FURNACE
A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.
IRIS DIAPHRAGM
An adjustable diaphragm, suggesting the iris of the eye in its action, for regulating the aperture of a lens, consisting of a number of thin pieces fastened to a ring. It is used in cameras and microscopes.