deviation — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.

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2. A departure from the correct way of acting.

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   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.

3. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

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   mankind’s deviation from divine will

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   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.

4. A detour in a road or railway.

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   "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."

5. A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.

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   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).

6. 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.

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7. The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.

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8. For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

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9. The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

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Substantiv

1. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

   Synonyme

   divergencedeparturedifference

   Oberbegriffe

   variationfluctuation

   Beispiele

   the deviation from the mean

2. the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function

   Oberbegriffe

   statistic

3. the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances

   Oberbegriffe

   erroneousnesserror

4. deviate behavior

   Synonyme

   deviance

   Oberbegriffe

   abnormalityirregularity

5. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

   Synonyme

   diversiondigressiondeflectiondeflexiondivagation

   Oberbegriffe

   turnturning

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   a diversion from the main highway

   a digression into irrelevant details

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   a deflection from his goal