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Deviation

noun

A variation that deviates from the standard or norm. Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence.

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

The error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances.

Deviate behavior. Synonym: deviance.

A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern). Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion. "A digression into irrelevant details" , "A deflection from his goal"

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"Deviation" Quotes from Famous Books

... now the national centre not only of the European Empire, but of the ancient and holy kingdom of the Czars, from which the historical reminiscences of the people spring, which, perhaps, is big with the destinies of the future empire in spite of a deviation ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... end, justice or force? Does force contain an unknown justice that will absorb our human justice, or is the impulse of justice within us, that would seem to resist blind force, actually no more than a devious emanation from that force, tending to the same end; and is it only the point of deviation that escapes us? This is not a question that we can answer, we who ourselves form part of the mystery we seek to solve; the reply could come only from one who might be gazing upon us from the heights of another world: one who should ...

— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck

... cause of the Panic of 1857 is clearly demonstrated by the records of the Clearing-House, and a scale is presented by which the deviation of the volume of Bank Loans from an average standard of safety can be ascertained ...

— The Roman Question • Edmond About

... of linseed was applied every night over the stomach and right side; and, with little deviation from this plan, she continued to the end of the year, improving in her general health, but the hepatic affection yet remaining. It was then determined to try the effects of electricity, and gentle shocks were passed through the body daily, ...

— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering

... military reconnoissance had forewarned me of this deviation; and, furthermore, that the trace passes over a ridge altogether destitute of timber. To follow it, therefore, in the broad light of day, would expose our little party to view. If hostile Indians should be hanging after the caravan, they would be sure to see us, and equally certain ...

— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

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