Usually means: Diverting attention away from focus.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. distraction: Merriam-Webster
  2. distraction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distraction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distraction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distraction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distraction, distraction: Wordnik
  7. distraction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distraction: Wiktionary
  9. distraction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distraction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distraction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. distraction: Dictionary.com
  13. distraction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Distraction (Kehlani song), Distraction (album), Distraction (disambiguation), Distraction (game show), Distraction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Distraction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. distraction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. distraction: Rhymezone
  18. distraction, distraction (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. distraction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Distraction: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. distraction: FreeDictionary.org
  22. distraction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. distraction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. distraction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distraction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distraction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. distraction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. distraction: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. distraction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distraction: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distraction: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distraction, Distraction, distr'action: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distraction: Chess Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See distractions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that distracts.
noun:  The process of being distracted.
noun:  Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
noun:  Mental disarray; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
noun:  (medicine, archaic) Traction so exerted as to separate surfaces normally opposed.

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