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deviation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (Texas) audio
  • /ˌdiː.viˈæɪʃən/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A departure from the correct way of acting.
    • 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. 2007, Nick Bentley, “Re-writing Englishness: imagining the nation in Julian Barnes’s England, England and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, in Textual Practice, volume 21, number 3, →DOI, pages 496–7:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
    • mankind’s deviation from divine will
    • The principle of unity of control in industry was soon introduced, and dreams of the collective administration of factories were condemned as a syndicalist deviation. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487:
  4. (countable, uncountable) A detour in a road or railway.
    • "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to." 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:
  5. (countable, uncountable) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
    • 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). 1992 March 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Explosive Decompression - Loss of Cargo Door in Flight, United Airlines Flight 811, Boeing 747-122, N4713U, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 24, 1989, page 2:
  6. (countable, qualifier:contract law, uncountable) 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.
  7. (countable, qualifier:Absolute Deviation, uncountable) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
  8. (countable, uncountable) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
  9. (countable, uncountable) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

Forms

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deviations Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

exodeviation · overdeviation · standard deviation · sexual deviation · immunodeviation · absolute deviation · mean deviation · cyclodeviation · deviation ratio · nondeviation · immune deviation · magnetic deviation · underdeviation · multideviation · deviational · deviationism · relative deviation · average deviation · deviationist · signed deviation · quartile deviation · mean absolute deviation

Relateds

deviance · deviate · deviant

Translations (70)

fi poikkeama (state or result of having deviated) · cs odchylka (statistical deviation) · fi deviaatio (voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured) · de Abweichung (act of deviating) · bg девиация (shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts) · bg отклонение (act of deviating) · cmn 誤差 /误差 (statistical deviation) · el παρέκκλιση (act of deviating) · ca desviació (statistical deviation) · de Sünde (state or result of having deviated) · pt desvio (act of deviating) · de Übertretung (state or result of having deviated) · fi poikkeama (shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts) · tl liwas (statistical deviation) · fi kiertotie (A detour in a road or other route) · ka გადახვევა (act of deviating) · cmn 偏差 (statistical deviation) · hy շեղում (act of deviating) · sa भ्रंश (state or result of having deviated) · el απόκλιση (statistical deviation) · uk відхи́лення (state or result of having deviated) · fr écart (statistical deviation) · fi eksymä (voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured) · he סטייה (state or result of having deviated) · ca desviació (act of deviating) · fi poikkeaminen (act of deviating) · de Umleitung (A detour in a road or other route) · ka დევიაცია (act of deviating) · de Abweichung (statistical deviation) · fi poikkeama (statistical deviation) · tr sapma (act of deviating) · ml വ്യതിചലനം (act of deviating) · pt desvio (statistical deviation) · bg отклонение (state or result of having deviated) · km ការងាកចេញ (act of deviating) · uk відхи́лення (act of deviating) · he סטייה (act of deviating) · mi ara autaki (A detour in a road or other route) · de Abweichung (shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts) · de Verfehlung (state or result of having deviated) · cmn 偏離 /偏离 (act of deviating) · el απόκλιση (act of deviating) · es desviación (statistical deviation) · km ការងាកចេញ (state or result of having deviated) · ar إِنْحِرَاف (act of deviating) · hy խոտորում (act of deviating) · fr déviation (A detour in a road or other route) · es desviación (act of deviating) · sv avvikelse (statistical deviation) · hy շեղում (state or result of having deviated) · nb avvik (statistical deviation) · ml വ്യതിയാനം (state or result of having deviated) · cmn 繞行 /绕行 (A detour in a road or other route) · de Abweichen (act of deviating) · tr sapma (state or result of having deviated) · it deviazione (statistical deviation) · pl odchylenie (statistical deviation) · el εκτροπή (act of deviating) · nl afwijken (act of deviating) · da afvigelse (act of deviating) · tl kaliwasan (statistical deviation) · fr déviation (act of deviating) · ml വ്യതിയാനം (act of deviating) · ru отклоне́ние (act of deviating) · ru отклоне́ние (state or result of having deviated) · it scarto (statistical deviation) · ja 偏差 (statistical deviation) · sv avvikelse (act of deviating) · tr sapma (statistical deviation) · hy թեքում (act of deviating)