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

Usage examples of deviation.

It is not designed to circumscribe healthful reproduction, but to serve as an effectual hindrance to abnormal deviations.

The ecotheorists further take this metabiological absolutizing and not only attempt to explain culture with its terms, but also necessarily see culture as a lamentable deviation from those terms: all conclusions guaranteed by the prior absolutizing.

Let it be also conceded that small deviations from the antecedent colouring or form would tend to make some of their ancestors escape destruction, by causing them more or less frequently to be passed over or mistaken by their persecutors.

Peer Helion, that those society employs to enforce its rules against deviations are justified in their use of force.

But the number and diversity of inheritable deviations of structure, both those of slight and those of considerable physiological importance, is endless.

For Kier Gray, she had found out long ago, shared with that most hateful of men, John Petty, the ability to think in her presence without deviation, in a manner that made mind reading a practical impossibility.

I see as yet nothing that creates a major deviation from the Pattern set back in Rhames, when this journey was decided upon.

However, these deviations of his from the doctrines of the Stoa are not merely prompted by Christianity, but rather have already become an essential component of his philosophical theory of the world.

But all these peculiar and incidental deviations finally return to the original form, showing that these changes have definite limits, and that the alterations observe a specific variableness, which is finally completed by its assuming again the original form.

Brownpony could only heap more ecclesiastical sanctions upon an already excommunicated and anathematized Filpeo Harq Hannegan and his uncle, the apostle of Platonic friendship and other deviations from orthodoxy.

Thus I can understand how a flower and a bee might slowly become, either simultaneously or one after the other, modified and adapted in the most perfect manner to each other, by the continued preservation of individuals presenting mutual and slightly favourable deviations of structure.

They lifted their dazed, innocent faces, and crying, simply because the mysterious excitement and their new quarters frightened them, they repeated their heroic legend without important deviation, and without the parroty sameness which would excite suspicion.

This is true also of all the preganglionic nerve endings in the autonomic nervous system, but there is a deviation from this norm in connection with the postganglionic nerve endings.

A semicircular protractor of metal for measuring the inclination of vents, or for ascertaining their deviation from the guide.

An institution set up by the church to protect the faith and maintain its purity, the Court of the Provers had eventually led to the persecution of thousands for the least of deviations from the True Way.