deviation

n.

1. The act of deviating or turning aside.
2. An abnormality; a departure: "Vice was a deviation from our nature" (Henry Fielding).
3. Deviant behavior or attitudes.
4. Divergence from an accepted political policy or party line.
5. Deflection of a compass needle caused by local magnetic influence, especially on a ship.
6. Statistics. The difference, especially the absolute difference, between one number in a set and the mean of the set.

deviationism de'vi·a'tion·ism n.
deviationist de'vi·a'tion·ist adj. & n.

SYNONYMS   deviation, aberration, divergence. These nouns mean a departure from what is prescribed or expected: tolerates no deviation from the rules; regretted the aberrations of my adolescence; the divergence of two cultures.

noun

1. A departing from what is prescribed: aberration, departure, divergence, divergency, diversion. See approach/retreat, correct/incorrect.
2. An instance of digressing: aside, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See approach/retreat.
3. The condition of being abnormal: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviancy, irregularity, preternaturalness, unnaturalness. See good/bad, usual/unusual.

n

Definition: change, departure
Antonyms: conformity, sameness, straightforwardness, uniformity

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(dē′vē-ā′shən)
n

Turning from a regular course; deflection.

n. the deflection of a vessel’s compass needle caused by iron in the vessel, which varies with the vessel’s heading.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

In statistics, the difference between one value and the mean of the set of values. Mean deviation is the mean of all the individual deviations of a set.

Variation from the regular standard or course.
1. In ophthalmology, a tendency for the visual axes of the eye to fall out of alignment owing to muscular imbalance.
2. in statistics the difference between the predicted value of a variable and the actual value.

• standard d. — a measure of statistical dispersion. See standard deviation.

(DOD, NATO) 1. The distance by which a point of impact or burst misses the target. See also circular error probable; delivery error; dispersion error; horizontal error. 2. The angular difference between magnetic and compass headings.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - afvigelse, fravigelse, variation, deviation

Nederlands (Dutch)
afwijking, afwijkende mening/koers

Français (French)
n. - déviation de, dérogation à, déviance de, (Naut, Aviat) déviation, dérive (d'un projectile), dérivation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Abweichung, Deviation

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παρέκκλιση, απόκλιση, εκτροπή, παρέκβαση, (στατ.) απόκλιση, (μτφ.) (παθολογική) διαστροφή

Italiano (Italian)
deviazione, aberrazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - desvio (m)

Русский (Russian)
отклонение, девиация

Español (Spanish)
n. - inversión (sexual), aberración, anomalía, desviación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - avvikelse

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
背离

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 背離

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 일탈 행위, 편차, 항로 변경, 생각

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 外れること, 逸脱, 偏差, 自差

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الانحراف, الانحراف عن معتقد متبع, مقدار انحراف مؤشر قياس, عن المعدل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סטייה, נליזה‬

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