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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

... the subject more attentively, he wrote to Newton that wherever the direction of gravity was oblique to the axis on which the earth revolved, that is, in every part of the earth except the equator, falling bodies should approach to the equator, and the deviation from the vertical, in place of being exactly to the east, as Newton maintained, should be to the southeast of the point from which the body began ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson

... he has to endure the scrutiny of curious and often hostile eyes. Our son's marked idiosyncrasies, sturdy independence, fastidious refinement and passion for work, singled him out from his fellows as an original. As boys resent any deviation from the normal, he had a rough time until he found his feet, and the experience was repeated as he moved up to new forms. Not a word about all this escaped his lips at home; I have ascertained it from others. Stories reached me of personal combats from which he usually emerged the ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... gratify such feelings as are pernicious to their moral welfare, upon his slaves. Now, the question is, that knowing the negro's power of imitation, ought not some allowance to be made for copying the errors of his master? Yet such is not the case; for the slightest deviation from the strictest rule of discipline brings condign punishment upon ...

— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... head is at the altar; His outstretched arms are the two transepts; His pierced hands are the doors; His legs are the nave where we are standing; His pierced feet are the door by which we have come in. Now consider the systematic deviation of the axis of the building; it imitates the attitude of a body bent over from the upright tree of sacrifice, and in some cathedrals—for instance, at Reims—the narrowness, the strangulation, so to speak, of the choir in proportion to the nave represents ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... part of the work is inevitably composed of those materials which a journal supplies; but wherever reflections could be introduced without fastidiousness and parade, he has not scrupled to indulge them, in common with every other deviation which the ...

— A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson • Watkin Tench

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