Crossword clues for deviation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deviation \de`vi*a"tion\, n. [LL. deviatio: cf. F. d['e]viation.]
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.
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
(Com.) 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.
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(Statistics, Physics) the difference between an expected value of an observation or measurement and the actual value.
Deviation of a falling body (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth.
Deviation of the compass, 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.
Deviation of the line of the vertical, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, noun of action from deviate (v.). Statistical sense is from 1858. Related: Deviational.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of deviate; 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. 2 The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. 3 (context contract law English) 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. 4 (context Absolute Deviation English) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts. 5 (context statistics English) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean. 6 (context metrology English) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
WordNet
n. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: divergence, departure, difference]
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 [syn: deviance]
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" [syn: diversion, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation]
Wikipedia
Deviation may refer to:
In mathematics and statistics, deviation is a measure of difference between the observed value of a variable and some other value, often that variable's mean. The sign of the deviation (positive or negative), reports the direction of that difference (the deviation is positive when the observed value exceeds the reference value). The magnitude of the value indicates the size of the difference.
Deviation is the third solo studio album by American singer Jayne County, released in 1995 by Royalty Records. The album recorded at Abraham Moss Studio (The Cutting Rooms) in Manchester, England in the winter of 1994.
Deviation is an album by American banjoist Béla Fleck, released in 1984. It was recorded with the second classic line-up of the New Grass Revival, consisting of Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, John Cowan and Pat Flynn.
Deviation is a 2006 short film that was the first short film in the machinima genre to be premiered in competition at a major film festival, the Tribeca Film Festival.
The doctrine of deviation is a particular aspect of contracts of carriage of goods by sea. A deviation is a departure from the "agreed route" or the "usual route", and it can amount to a serious a breach of contract. The consequences of unjustified deviation are very grave for the carrier, who is thereby prevented from relying upon any exclusion clause which limits his liability.
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.