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)
Khet is a chess-like abstract strategy board game using lasers that was formerly known as Deflexion. Players take turns moving Egyptian-themed pieces around the playing field, firing their low-powered laser diode after each move. Most of the pie ...
, formerly ''Deflexion'', an Egyptian-themed chess-like game using lasers
Mechanics
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Deflection (ballistics) {{unreferenced, date=May 2008
Deflection shooting is a technique of shooting ahead of a moving target, also known as leading the target, so that the projectile will "intercept" and collide with the target at a predicted point. This technique is onl ...
, shooting ahead of a moving target so that the target and projectile will collide
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Deflection (engineering)
In structural engineering, deflection is the degree to which a part of a structural element is displaced under a load (because it deforms). It may refer to an angle or a distance.
The deflection distance of a member under a load can be calcula ...
, the displacement of a structural element under load
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Deflection (physics)
In physics, deflection is a change in a moving object's velocity, hence its trajectory, as a consequence of contact (collision) with a surface or the influence of a non-contact force field. Examples of the former include a ball bouncing off the g ...
, 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
Electrostatic deflection refers to a way for modifying the path of a beam of charged particles by the use of an electric field applied transverse to the path of the particles. The technique is called electro''static'' because the strength and di ...
, a technique for modifying the path of charged particles by the use of an electric field
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Deflect.ca, a DDoS mitigation and website security service
See also
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Deflector (disambiguation)
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