deviation.
The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
Meaning & usage
The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
A departure from the correct way of acting.
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
mankind’s deviation from divine will
A detour in a road or railway.
A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
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.
The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.