deflection

Noun

• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
  • a diversion from the main highway
    
  • a digression into irrelevant details
    
  • a deflection from his goal
    

• the property of being bent or deflected

• the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position

• the amount by which a propagating wave is bent

• a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  diversion , deviation , digression , deflexion , divagation , bending , refraction , warp