Deflection
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Deflection or deflexion may refer to:
- Deflection (engineering)Deflection (engineering)In engineering, deflection is the degree to which a structural element is displaced under a load. It may refer to an angle or a distance.The deflection distance of a member under a load is directly related to the slope of the deflected shape of the member under that load and can be calculated by...
, the displacement of a structural element under load - Deflection (military)Deflection (military)Deflection is a technique used for effectively firing a ranged weapon at a moving target, that describes "leading the target"; that is, shooting ahead of a moving target so that the target and projectile will collide...
, a technique of shooting ahead of a moving target so that the target and projectile will collide - Deflection (physics)Deflection (physics)In physics deflection is the event where an object collides and bounces against a plane surface.In such collisions involving a sphere and a plane, the collision angle formed with the surface normal must equal the bounce angle , \alpha = \beta.Magnetic deflection refers to Lorentz forces acting...
, the event where an object collides and bounces against a plane surface - Deflexion (linguistics)Deflexion (linguistics)Deflexion is a linguistic process related to inflectional languages. All members of the Indo-European language family belong to these kinds of languages and are subject to some degree of deflexional change. The process is typified by the degeneration of the inflectional structure of a language...
, a linguistic process related to inflectional languages - Electrostatic deflectionElectrostatic deflectionElectrostatic deflection refers to a technique for modifying the path of a stream of charged particles by the use of an electric field applied transverse to the path of the particles.The technique is called electrostatic because the strength and direction of the applied field changes slowly...
, a technique for modifying the path of charged particles by the use of an electric field - Deflection (chess)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 critical to the defence...
, a tactic that forces an opposing chess piece to leave a square - Khet (game), an Egyptian-themed chess-like abstract strategy board game using lasers, formerly known as Deflexion