deflector shield
Spaceship protective field
A deflector shield is a protective energy barrier in science fiction, especially in franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars.
The shield surrounds a spacecraft or installation, absorbing or deflecting weapons fire and debris: Raise the deflector shields!
Their shields are at forty percent.
The term sometimes appears in figurative use for emotional or conversational barriers: He put up his deflector shields whenever anyone asked about his past.
- forcefieldInvisible energy barrier
- energy fieldRegion of radiating force
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- starshipFictional interstellar vessel
- energyPower to do work
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- Star TrekSpock, Kirk, Enterprise, USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk
- force fieldsbarriers, barrier, invisible wall, protective bubble
- Star Wars techlightsaber, Death Star, blaster, hyperdrive, droid
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- Sci-fi Weaponsray gun, laser gun, phaser, blaster, plasma gun
- shieldsbuckler, scutum, aegis
deflector shieldweapon
Instrument for inflicting harm
laser cannon · phaser · death ray · photon torpedo · turbolaser
deflector shieldvulnerability
Openness to harm
defenselessness · unshielded · unprotected · breach · sitting duck
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