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noun. The act of deviating or turning aside.

noun. An instance of this.

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noun. Divergence from an accepted idea, policy, or norm of behavior.

noun. An instance of this; an abnormality or departure from a norm.

noun. Deflection of a compass needle caused by local magnetic influence, especially on a ship.

noun. The difference, especially the absolute difference, between one number in a set of data and the mean of that set of data.

noun. If the law of error be stated by the equation , more conveniently written , then is called by Pearson the standard deviation. The square root of the average of the squared departures from the mean in both directions is a measure of variability called the standard deviation.

noun. The act of deviating; a turning aside from the way or course.

noun. Departure from a certain standard or from a rule of conduct, an original plan, etc.; variation; specifically, obliquity of conduct.

noun. In com., the voluntary departure of a ship without necessity, or without reasonable cause, from the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured.

noun. In astronomy, the oscillatory motion of a plane; especially, in the Ptolemaic system, the oscillation of the plane of the orbit of a planet, which was supposed to account for certain inequalities in the latitude.

noun. 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.

noun. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

noun. 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.

noun. the difference between an expected value of an observation or measurement and the actual value.

noun. that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

noun. 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.

noun. The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.

noun. For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

noun. The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

noun. a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

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

noun. deviate behavior

noun. the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances

noun. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm