Defense

For other uses, see Defense (disambiguation). Look up defense, defence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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
- Defense minister
International security
The defense industry
- Defense contractor, a company that provides defense-related services

Concepts in law:

In psychology:

Defence mechanism

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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