- Look up defense, defence, or
defensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Defense or
defence may
refer to:
Defense (military),
forces primarily intended...
- The NBA All-
Defensive Team is an
annual National Basketball ****ociation (NBA)
honor given since the 1968–69 NBA
season to the best
defensive players during...
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Midfielders may play an
exclusively defensive role,
breaking up attacks, and are in that case
known as
defensive midfielders. As
central midfielders often...
- tackles.
Defensive tackles are
typically the
largest and
strongest of the
defensive players.
Depending on a team's
defensive scheme, a
defensive tackle...
- In
gridiron football,
defensive backs (DBs), also
called the secondary, are the
players on the
defensive side of the ball who play ****hest back from the...
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Defensive rating or
defensive efficiency is a
statistic used in
basketball to
measure an
individual player's
efficiency at
preventing the
other team from...
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Defensive programming is a form of
defensive design intended to
develop programs that are
capable of
detecting potential security abnormalities and make...
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Defensive medicine, also
called defensive medical decision making,
refers to the
practice of
recommending a
diagnostic test or
medical treatment that...
- are the
offensive line (OL),
while linemen on the
opposing team are the
defensive line (DL). A
number of
National Football League (NFL)
rules specifically...
- NBA
Defensive Player of the Year is an
annual National Basketball ****ociation (NBA)
award given since the 1982–83 NBA
season to the best
defensive player...
