deviation
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio.
Pronunciation- (America) IPA: /diviˈeɪʃən/
deviation
- The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
- A departure from the correct way of acting.
- The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
- mankind’s deviation from divine will
- A detour in a road or railway.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC ↗, page 21:
- "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."
- (aviation) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
- (contract law) 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.
- (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
- (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
- (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
- French: déviation
- German: Abweichung, Abweichen
- Portuguese: desvio
- Russian: отклоне́ние
- Spanish: desviación
- German: Übertretung, Verfehlung, Sünde
- Russian: отклоне́ние
- French: déviation
- German: Abweichung
- French: écart
- German: Abweichung
- Italian: scarto, deviazione
- Portuguese: desvio
- Spanish: desviación
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