Diversion may refer to:
- diversion, a detour, especially of an airplane flight due to severe weather or mechanical failure, or of an ambulance from a fully occupied emergency room to one another nearby hospital
- diversion, a distraction
- diversion, a form of informal fallacy known as a general irrelevancy, a violation of sound reasoning
- diversion, the rerouting of water from a river or lake for flood control, or as part of a water supply network for drinking water or irrigation (see Diversion dam)
- Diversion, a British television film later adapted into the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction
- Diversion program, criminal justice scheme usually for minor offenses
- Diversionary tactic, also known as feint; a military deception designed to draw enemy strength away from a primary target
- Pharmaceutical diversion, the diversion of licit drugs for illicit purposes
- Product diversion, the sale of products in unintended markets
- Yamaha Diversion, a motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha
Famous quotes containing the word diversion:
“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)