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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

• All pages with titles beginning with Deflection
• All pages with titles containing Deflection
• Deflector (disambiguation)