Defense
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For other uses, see Defense (disambiguation).
Defense or defence (see -ce/-se) may refer to:
The tactics and strategy of defending against attack:
- Defense (military)
- Defense (sport)
- Defender (football), a specialist defensive player in association football
- Defenceman (ice hockey), a specialist defensive player in ice hockey
- a Chess opening as created in reply by Black
- Defense (legal)
- Self-defense
- Civil defense
In politics and economics:
- National security
- International security
- The defense industry
- Defense contractor, a company that provides defense-related services
Concepts in law:
In psychology:
It may also refer to:
- A euphemism for war or the military
- Defense of a doctoral thesis, also called viva voce; see Thesis committee
- La Défense, a business district in Paris
- The Grande Arche, commonly known as Arche de la Défense, a monument in the Parisian district of the same name
- 'DeFence', an interactive conceptual art project for freedom of cohabitation
- The Haganah (in Hebrew: "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine
- Tower defense, a genre of video game
- The pharmaceutical Cimetidine, used for treating gastric ulcers
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