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Deviation
Definitions
- 1 The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road. countable, uncountable
- 2 a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) wordnet
- 3 A departure from the correct way of acting. countable, uncountable
"The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture."
- 4 deviate behavior wordnet
- 5 The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. countable, uncountable
"mankind’s deviation from divine will"
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- 6 the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances wordnet
- 7 A detour in a road or railway. countable, uncountable
""A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to.""
- 8 the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function wordnet
- 9 A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour. countable, uncountable
"The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP)."
- 10 a variation that deviates from the standard or norm wordnet
- 11 The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. countable, uncountable
- 12 The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts. countable, uncountable
- 13 For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean. countable, uncountable
- 14 The signed difference between a value and its reference value. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.
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