deviation

Definitions

1. noun

   The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.

2. noun

   A departure from the correct way of acting.

3. noun

   The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

   Example

   • mankind’s deviation from divine will
4. noun

   A detour in a road or railway.

   Example

   • "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."
5. noun

   A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.

   Example

   • 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).
6. 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.

7. noun

   The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.

8. noun

   For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

9. noun

   The signed difference between a value and its reference value.