English Explanatory Dictionary

deviation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
  2. A departure from the correct way of acting.
  3. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  4. A detour in a road or railway.
  5. A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
  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.
  7. The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
  8. For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
  9. The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

Pronunciation

/ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deviation.wav /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-deviation.wav /ˌdiː.viˈæɪʃən/

Word forms

deviation deviations

Etymology

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

Related words

deviance deviate deviant

Derived words

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

Translations

Catalan: desviació Chinese Mandarin: 誤差 /误差 Chinese Mandarin: 偏差 Czech: odchylka Finnish: poikkeama French: écart German: Abweichung Greek: απόκλιση Italian: scarto Italian: deviazione Japanese: 偏差 Norwegian Bokmål: avvik Polish: odchylenie Portuguese: desvio Spanish: desviación Swedish: avvikelse Tagalog: liwas Tagalog: kaliwasan Turkish: sapma
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