deflection (n.)
- aberration
- angle
- apex
- bend
- bending
- bifurcation
- bight
- bow
- bowing
- cant
- chevron
- clutter
- coin
- corner
- crank
- crook
- crotchet
- declination
- defile
- departure
- deviance
- deviation
- deviousness
- diffraction
- diffusion
- digression
- dispersion
- distortion
- divagation
- divergence
- diversion
- dogleg
- elbow
- ell
- excursion
- flection
- flex
- flexure
- force
- fork
- furcation
- hook
- indirection
- indirectness
- inflection
- knee
- meander
- nonconformity
- nook
- obliqueness
- obliquity
- outrage
- oxbow
- point
- quoin
- reflection
- refraction
- scatter
- skewness
- spoil
- squint
- sweep
- swerve
- swerving
- torsion
- turn
- turning
- twisting
- vagary
- veering
- vertex
- zag
- zig
- zigzag