deflectional

English

Alternative forms

• deflexional

Adjective

deflectional (comparative more deflectional, superlative most deflectional)

1. Of or pertaining to deflection.
   • 2012, George J. Simitses, Dynamic Stability of Suddenly Loaded Structures, page 148:

     In this case the governing deflectional mode is symmetric and the critical load, denoted by qer, corresponds to the relative maximum (in absolute value) of Q for the load-displacement relation given by eqs.