deviation
/ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/
Frequency: 3.40 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture."
- "mankind’s deviation from divine will"
- "The principle of unity of control in industry was soon introduced, and dreams of the collective administration of factories were condemned as a syndicalist deviation."
- ""A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to.""
- "The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP)."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/
- British English: /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/