What is "deviating"

Usage examples of "deviating".

Tunglor massed in at about the same as the Dreadful Bride, and they attacked by rising from depth at fifty or sixty knots and ramming with their metal-sapphire-fiber prows, never deviating from the shortest course.

He tapped out the appropriate code and saw the cursor outline a second orbit, deviating by several degrees from the earlier one and with the return path intersecting the orbit of the fifth planet and spiraling in!

A child born with an extra finger or toe must be killed, women who give birth to deviating children are regarded as unclean and are punished.

After follow-up and questioning, an official of the British Museum admitted that results deviating substantially from the expected values were often discarded without being published.

And in the last year or so we've been hearing that probes now in the outer Solar System are deviating from their expected trajectories and nobody is sure why.

This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.

Naturally leery of anything deviating from his private norm, Ferrante dropped quietly to hands and knees, crawled cautiously up behind the stove and peered around it.

But here no words, no deviating: simply the wide spiral, turning about the dancing floor, gradually narrowing, tighter, until there was no motion except for the steps, which led nowhere.

North they swept, running low over the glittering sea, deviating from their course to pass close to a large schooner, deviating again to make rings around a huge, unwieldy balloon, hovering over a fleet of small fishing craft whose crews were hauling in nets alive with a silvery catch, whose men stared upward in wonder at the alien flying machine.