# deviation
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/
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* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˌdiː.viˈæɪʃən/
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

deviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)
* The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
* A departure from the correct way of acting.
** 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: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.
* 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.
** 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: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).
* (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.

#### Usage notes

Most of the detour-related senses of deviation carry an implication of error or wrongdoing; however, the aviation sense does not.

#### Derived terms

* 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

#### Related terms

* deviance
* deviate
* deviant

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* antivideo

## Danish
### Noun

deviation c (singular definite deviationen, plural indefinite deviationer)
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#### Declension
### Further reading

* “deviation” in Den Danske Ordbog