deviation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mathematics
metrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.
Base: deviate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: deviations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A departure from the correct way of acting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: mankind’s deviation from divine will
gloss: A detour in a road or railway.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."
gloss: A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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).
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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:
lang: Catalan
word: desviació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 誤差 /误差
roman: wùchā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 偏差
roman: piānchā
lang: Czech
word: odchylka
lang: Finnish
word: poikkeama
lang: French
word: écart
lang: German
word: Abweichung
lang: Greek
word: απόκλιση
roman: apóklisi
lang: Italian
word: scarto
lang: Italian
word: deviazione
lang: Japanese
word: 偏差
roman: hensa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: avvik
lang: Polish
word: odchylenie
lang: Portuguese
word: desvio
lang: Spanish
word: desviación
lang: Swedish
word: avvikelse
lang: Tagalog
word: liwas
lang: Tagalog
word: kaliwasan
lang: Turkish
word: sapma