Deflection or deflexion may refer to:
Board games
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Deflection (chess)
Deflection in chess is a tactic that forces an opposing piece to leave the square, rank or file it occupies, thus exposing the king or a valuable piece. It is typically used in the context of a combination or attack, where the deflected piece is ...
, a tactic that forces an opposing chess piece to leave a square
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Khet (game), formerly ''Deflexion'', an Egyptian-themed chess-like game using lasers
Mechanics
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Deflection (ballistics), shooting ahead of a moving target so that the target and projectile will collide
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Deflection (engineering), the displacement of a structural element under load
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Deflection (physics), the event where an object collides and bounces against a plane surface
Social sciences
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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
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Deflection (psychology)
Psychological projection is the process of misinterpreting what is "inside" as coming from "outside". It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. In its malignant forms, i ...
, a defence mechanism
Technologies
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Deflection routing
Deflection routing is a routing strategy for networks based on packet switching which can reduce the need of buffering packets. Every packet has preferred outputs along which it wants to leave the router, and when possible, a packet is sent al ...
, a routing strategy for networks to reduce the need of buffering packets
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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
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Electrostatic deflection, a technique for modifying the path of charged particles by the use of an electric field
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Deflect.ca
Deflect is a DDoS mitigation and website security service by eQualitie, a Canadian social enterprise developing open and reusable systems with a focus on privacy, resilience and self-determination, to protect and promote human rights and pres ...
, a DDoS mitigation and website security service
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Deflector (disambiguation)
Deflector may refer to:
* Fire screen
* Jet blast deflector
* Shields (''Star Trek'')
* Wind deflector
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* Deflection (disambiguation)
* ''Deflektor
Deflektor is a puzzle game developed by Vortex Software and published by Greml ...
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