See Also: deviation(dictionary)
deviation(dictionary)
Deviation(medicine)
deviation to the right(medicine)
Deviation - Sailing(gambling)
secondary deviation(medicine)
sexual deviation(medicine)
skew deviation(medicine)
standard deviation(medicine)
Standard Deviation(money)

deviation (iou)



deviation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French deviation from medieval Latin deviatio(n-), formed as DEVIATE verb: see -ATION.]
Divergence from a course, method, rule, or norm; an instance of this. (Foll. by from.) LME.
b. spec. (An instance of) divergence from a moral or sexual norm. E17.
c. (An instance of) divergence from the political doctrine or practices of a government or party, esp. a Communist party. M20.
The action or an act of swerving or changing direction. M17.
Divergence from the straight line, mean, or standard; variation; the amount of this. L17.
conjugate deviation: see CONJUGATE adjective.
b. spec. (The amount of) deflection of the needle of a compass due to local magnetism, esp. of the iron etc. in a ship. E19.
c. Statistics. The amount by which a single measurement differs from the mean. M19.
mean deviation the mean of the absolute deviations. standard deviation the square root of the mean of the squares of the deviations.
deviationism noun political deviation, a tendency to depart from (esp. Communist) party doctrine or practices: M20.
deviationist noun & adjective (a) noun a person who departs from (esp. Communist) party doctrine or practices; (b) adjective of or pertaining to deviationism or deviationists: M20.