A diversion or deviation from one's original route. / (programming) The diversion of the flow of execution for debugging or similar purposes.

(intransitive) To make a detour. / (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

(military) Detonation of a charge by exploding another charge adjacent to it.

To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy. / To remove any governing authority from power. / To remove from any position of high status or power.

The arsenal of nuclear weapons of a nation viewed as a deterrent to an enemy from attacking.

Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.

Something that deters.

(biology) A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells that inherit it during cleavage.

(US) An institution in which juvenile offenders are temporarily housed.

(Britain) A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver