Deflection

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