Deflection

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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), 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 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
Deflect.ca, a DDoS mitigation and website security service

See also

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