'deviation' definitions:
Definition of 'deviation'
From: WordNet
noun
A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference]
noun
The difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function
noun
The error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances
noun
Deviate behavior [syn: deviation, deviance]
noun
A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" [syn: diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation]
Definition of 'deviation'
From: GCIDE
- deviation \de`vi*a"tion\, n. [LL. deviatio: cf. F. d['e]viation.]
- 1. The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Com.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Statistics, Physics) the difference between an expected value of an observation or measurement and the actual value. [PJC]
- Deviation of a falling body (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth.
- Deviation of the compass, the angle which the needle of a ship's compass makes with the magnetic meridian by reason of the magnetism of the iron parts of the ship.
- Deviation of the line of the vertical, the difference between the actual direction of a plumb line and the direction it would have if the earth were a perfect ellipsoid and homogeneous, -- caused by the attraction of a mountain, or irregularities in the earth's density. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deviation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abnormity,
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- allowance,
- alteration,
- ambages,
- amelioration,
- amorphism,
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- anomalism,
- anomalousness,
- anomaly,
- apostasy,
- approximation,
- asymmetry,
- bend,
- betterment,
- blunder,
- breach,
- break,
- buckle,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byway,
- capriciousness,
- centrifugence,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- choppiness,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- conceit,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- contortion,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- conversion,
- crackpotism,
- crank,
- crankiness,
- crankism,
- crookedness,
- crosswiseness,
- crotchet,
- crotchetiness,
- dappleness,
- decentralization,
- declination,
- defection,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- departure,
- deployment,
- derangement,
- deterioration,
- detorsion,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- difference,
- differentiation,
- differentness,
- digression,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discontinuity,
- discordance,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- discursion,
- disorder,
- disparity,
- disproportion,
- dissent,
- dissimilarity,
- dissonance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- distortion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- division,
- dottiness,
- double,
- eccentricity,
- episode,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- error,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- failing,
- fanning,
- fanning out,
- far cry,
- fault,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- freakiness,
- freakishness,
- gnarl,
- gradual change,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- heterogeneity,
- heteromorphism,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- imbalance,
- imprecision,
- improvement,
- inaccordance,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inconstancy,
- incorrectness,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- inequality,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- inferiority,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- instability,
- irreconcilability,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- kink,
- knot,
- lapse,
- laxity,
- looseness,
- lopsidedness,
- maggot,
- mannerism,
- meandering,
- melioration,
- mercuriality,
- mitigation,
- mixture,
- modification,
- modulation,
- monstrosity,
- motleyness,
- mutability,
- negligence,
- noncompliance,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonobservance,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- oddity,
- odds,
- opposition,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- originality,
- otherness,
- overthrow,
- peculiarity,
- pluralism,
- predictable error,
- probable error,
- protest,
- qualification,
- queerness,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quirkiness,
- radical change,
- raggedness,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- recalcitrance,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- refractoriness,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- screw,
- separateness,
- separation,
- shift,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- singularity,
- skewness,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- splaying,
- spread,
- spreading,
- spreading out,
- squint,
- standard deviation,
- strangeness,
- subnormality,
- sudden change,
- superiority,
- switch,
- tack,
- teratism,
- tolerance,
- torsion,
- tortuosity,
- total change,
- transgression,
- transition,
- transverseness,
- trick,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turning,
- twist,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- unconventionality,
- uncorrectness,
- unevenness,
- unfactualness,
- unlikeness,
- unnaturalism,
- unnaturalness,
- unorthodoxy,
- unpreciseness,
- unrigorousness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsymmetry,
- upheaval,
- vagary,
- variability,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- versatility,
- violation,
- violent change,
- warp,
- wavering,
- wheeling,
- whim,
- whimsicality,
- whimsy,
- worsening,
- wrench,
- wrest,
- wring,
- yaw