Deviation

Noun

 * 1) The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
 * 2) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
 * 5)  For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

Derived terms

 * absolute deviation
 * average deviation
 * deviation ratio
 * immune deviation
 * mean deviation
 * quartile deviaition
 * relative deviation
 * sexual deviation
 * signed deviation
 * standard deviation

Related terms

 * deviance
 * deviate
 * deviant

Adjectives for Deviation
peculiar; slight; gross; material; frequent(pi); anomalous; momentary; occasional.

Verbs for Deviation
accept—; allow—; ascertain—; cause—; determine—; doubt—; eliminate—; govern—; measure—; observe—; recognize—; render—; suspect—; tend toward—; —destroys; —shocks; —strays; —varies.

Thesaurus
aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allowance, alteration, ambages, amelioration, amorphism, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, apostasy, approximation, asymmetry, bend, betterment, blunder, breach, break, buckle, bypass, bypath, byway, capriciousness, centrifugence, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, conceit, constructive change, continuity, contortion, contrariety, contrast, conversion, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crookedness, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, decentralization, declination, defection, deflection, deflexure, degeneration, degenerative change, departure, deployment, derangement, deterioration, detorsion, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation, differentness, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disorder, disparity, disproportion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, distortion, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, dottiness, double, eccentricity, episode, erraticism, erraticness, error, excursion, excursus, failing, fanning, fanning out, far cry, fault, fitting, flip-flop, freakiness, freakishness, gnarl, gradual change, gyre, gyring, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, imprecision, improvement, inaccordance, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, incorrectness, indirection, indirectness, inequality, inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, kink, knot, lapse, laxity, looseness, lopsidedness, maggot, mannerism, meandering, melioration, mercuriality, mitigation, mixture, modification, modulation, monstrosity, motleyness, mutability, negligence, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, odds, opposition, orbit, orbiting, originality, otherness, overthrow, peculiarity, pluralism, predictable error, probable error, protest, qualification, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, radical change, raggedness, re-creation, realignment, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, redesign, reform, reformation, refractoriness, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, rounding, screw, separateness, separation, shift, side path, side road, sidetrack, singularity, skewness, spiral, spiraling, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, standard deviation, strangeness, subnormality, sudden change, superiority, switch, tack, teratism, tolerance, torsion, tortuosity, total change, transgression, transition, transverseness, trick, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, uncorrectness, unevenness, unfactualness, unlikeness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unpreciseness, unrigorousness, unsteadiness, unsymmetry, upheaval, vagary, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, violation, violent change, warp, wavering, wheeling, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, worsening, wrench, wrest, wring, yaw

Translations

 * Armenian: շեղում, ,
 * Bulgarian: отклонение
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: poikkeaminen


 * German:
 * Hebrew: סטייה


 * Armenian: շեղում


 * Bulgarian: отклонение
 * Hebrew: סטייה


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:


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