Deflection or deflexion may refer to:

Board games

* Deflection (chess), a tactic that forces an opposing chess piece to leave a square * Khet (game), formerly ''Deflexion'', an Egyptian-themed chess-like game using lasers

Mechanics

* Deflection (ballistics), shooting ahead of a moving target so that the target and projectile will collide * Deflection (engineering), the displacement of a structural element under load * Deflection (physics), the event where an object collides and bounces against a plane surface

Social sciences

Deflexion (linguistics) Deflexion is a diachronic linguistic process in inflectional languages typified by the degeneration of the inflectional structure of a language. All members of the Indo-European language family are subject to some degree of deflexional change. This ...

, the degeneration of a language's inflectional system over time * Deflection (psychology), a defence mechanism

Technologies

* Deflection routing, a routing strategy for networks to reduce the need of buffering packets *

Deflection yoke A deflection yoke is a kind of magnetic lens, used in cathode ray tubes to scan the electron beam both vertically and horizontally over the whole screen. In a CRT television, the electron beam is moved in a raster scan on the screen. By adjusti ...

, a kind of magnetic lens used in cathode ray tubes * Electrostatic deflection, a technique for modifying the path of charged particles by the use of an electric field *

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, a DDoS mitigation and website security service

Board games

Mechanics

Social sciences

Technologies

See also