<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or state of deflecting or the state of being deflected</li><li>deflected</li><li>amount of deviation</li><li>the deviation of the indicator of an instrument from the position taken as zero</li><li>Optics: deviation (def 5a)</li><li>Military: the angle formed by the line of sight to the target and the line of sight to the point at which a gun is aimed so as to strike the target</li><li>Electronics: (in a cathode-ray tube) the bending by a magnetic field of the beam of electrons leaving the electron gun</li></ul>