Maneuver (American English), manoeuvre (British English), manoeuver, manœuver (also spelled, directly from the French, as manœuvre) describes a procedure or action that changes a direction. This can include a tactical move, or series of moves, that improves or maintains a strategic situation in a competitive environment or avoids a worse situation. It can also include changing the direction of travel of an object in orbit or elsewhere.
Military or naval
[edit]Controlled change in movement
[edit]Skilled movement or procedure
[edit]- Credé's maneuver
- Gowers's maneuver
- Heimlich maneuver, abdominal thrusts to relieve choking
- Kocher maneuver
- Leopold's maneuvers
- McRoberts maneuver
- Müller's maneuver
- Phalen's maneuver
- Pringle maneuver
- Sellick maneuver
- Valsalva's maneuver