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Deflection or deflexion may refer to:
- Deflection (ballistics), a technique of shooting ahead of a moving target so that the target and projectile will collide
- Deflection (chess), a tactic that forces an opposing chess piece to leave a square
- Deflection (engineering), the displacement of a structural element under load
- Deflexion (linguistics), a linguistic process related to inflectional languages
- Deflection (physics), the event where an object collides and bounces against a plane surface
- Deflection (psychology), a psychological Defence mechanism
- 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
- Khet (game), formerly known as Deflexion, an Egyptian-themed chess-like abstract strategy board game using lasers