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Meaning of "deviation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVIATION

deviation  [ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVIATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deviation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEVIATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Deviation

Deviation may refer to: ▪ Deviation, the difference between the value of an observation and the mean of the population in mathematics and statistics ▪ Standard deviation, which is based on the square of the difference ▪ Absolute deviation, where the absolute value of the difference is used ▪ Relative standard deviation, in probability theory and statistics is the absolute value of the coefficient of variation ▪ Deviation of a local ring in mathematics ▪ Deviation of a poset in mathematics ▪ Frequency deviation, the maximum allowed "distance" in FM radio from the nominal frequency a station broadcasts at ▪ Magnetic deviation, the error induced in compasses by local magnetic fields ▪ Deviation is a departure from a contract or a ship's course, thus breaching the contract ▪ Deviationism, an expressed belief which is not in accordance with official party doctrine ▪ Deviation Records, a record label ▪ Deviance, a behavior that is a recognized violation...

Definition of deviation in the English dictionary

The first definition of deviation in the dictionary is an act or result of deviating. Other definition of deviation is the difference between an observed value in a series of such values and their arithmetic mean. Deviation is also the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVIATION


abbreviation
əˌbriːvɪˈeɪʃən
affiliation
əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən
appreciation
əˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
appropriation
əˌprəʊprɪˈeɪʃən
association
əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən
aviation
ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən
depreciation
dɪˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
differentiation
ˌdɪfəˌrɛnʃɪˈeɪʃən
humiliation
hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪʃən
initiation
ɪˌnɪʃɪˈeɪʃən
irradiation
ɪˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən
mediation
ˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən
negotiation
nɪˌɡəʊʃɪˈeɪʃən
pronunciation
prəˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən
radiation
ˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən
Reconciliation
ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
remediation
rɪˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən
retaliation
rɪˌtælɪˈeɪʃən
variation
ˌvɛərɪˈeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVIATION

deviance
deviancy
deviant
deviate
deviated drilling
deviationism
deviationist
deviative
deviator
deviatory
device
deviceful
devil
devil of
devil ray
devil worship
devil-may-care
devil´s advocate
devil´s bit
devil´s bit scabious

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVIATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation
federation

Synonyms and antonyms of deviation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEVIATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «deviation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of deviation

Translation of «deviation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVIATION

Find out the translation of deviation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deviation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deviation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偏离
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desviación
570 millions of speakers

English

deviation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विचलन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانحراف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отклонение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desvio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চ্যুতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déviation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sisihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abweichung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

逸脱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

탈선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penyimpangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độ lệch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விலகல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचलन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sapma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

deviazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odchylenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відхилення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

abatere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απόκλιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afwyking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avvikelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avvik
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deviation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVIATION»

The term «deviation» is very widely used and occupies the 7.039 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVIATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «deviation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «deviation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deviation

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6 QUOTES WITH «DEVIATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word deviation.
1
Robert Barany
The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.
2
Edward Jenner
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
3
Bill Keller
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
4
Joey Skaggs
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
5
Charlie Trotter
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
6
Frank Zappa
Without deviation progress is not possible.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVIATION»

Discover the use of deviation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deviation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal
Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyses the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture.
Jeff Wagner, 2010
2
160 Degrees of Deviation: The Case for the Corporate Cynic
The good intentions of corporate management are frequently undermined by 160 Degree Deviators with personal agendas who cause morale to suffer and frustration to set in.
Jerome Alexander, 2002
3
Sexual Deviation
This book has become well established as the leading international reference on sexual deviation.
Ismond Rosen, 1996
4
Refined Large Deviation Limit Theorems
This is a developing area of modern probability theory, which has applications in many areas.
Vladimir Vinogradov, 1994
5
Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy
How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy James P. Spillane. instruments from other projects. Interview questions were open- ended and interviews ranged from forty-five minutes to two hours in duration; researchers worked to adapt ...
James P. Spillane, 2009
6
Large deviation techniques in decision, simulation, and ...
Each chapter has many examples, sample calculations, and extensive exercises at the end, with complete solutions given in the appendix. This is the only readable, mathematically nonrigorous probability book.
James A. Bucklew, 1990
7
Model to Develop a Provision for Adverse Deviation (PAD) for ...
This study recognizes the main components of mortality risk and treats them separately to develop a model to calculate a provision for adverse deviation(PAD).
Sudath P.K. Ranasinghe, 2007
8
Data Analysis Using Stata
The standard deviation The most common summary statistic for determining the dispersion of a distribution is the standard deviation. The standard deviation can be thought of as the "average distance" of the observations from the arithmetic ...
Ulrich Kohler, Frauke Kreuter, 2005
9
South Asian Sufis: Devotion, Deviation, and Destiny
This book examines active Sufi communities in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh that shed light on the devotion, and deviation, and destiny of Sufism in South Asia.
Clinton Bennett, Charles M. Ramsey, 2012
10
Sex and Sexuality: Sexual deviation and sexual offenses
Richard D. McAnulty, M. Michele Burnette. sexual assault and alcohol consumption does not mean that if women abstained from drinking, their risk for assault would disappear. There are potentially confounding factors that may better account ...
Richard D. McAnulty, M. Michele Burnette, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVIATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deviation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Pope heads to Bolivia amid church-state tensions - The Marietta Times
... church hierarchy, which in a 2012 pastoral letter called school texts that refer to Pachamama as a divinity "erroneous and a deviation.". «Marietta Times, Jul 15»
2
Student Loans Stunting Small Business Growth - Business News Daily
Researchers discovered that between 2000 and 2010 a one standard deviation increase in student debt reduced small businesses in those ... «Business News Daily, Jul 15»
3
Indicator of the Week: Will the S&P Finally Wake Up in the Second …
Second, I looked at the maximum deviation from the breakeven point. In 2015, the most the SPX veered from breakeven was 3.49%. By that ... «Schaeffers Research, Jul 15»
4
Root the star as Australia mix form | cricket.com.au
His full, almost yorker-length delivery curled menacingly into the right-hander who stabbed down on the ball and, due to the slight deviation it ... «cricket.com.au, Jul 15»
5
Smells Like Hippie Spirit | News Features | The Source Weekly …
Allegedly, the word was a deviation from "hipster," a term which has seen a new life lately, but was originally was assigned to the Beat ... «The Source Weekly, Jul 15»
6
Brazilian regulator stops import of Lupin drugs, stock slumps - Livemint
... regulator stops import of Lupin drugs, stock slumps. ANVISA suspends Lupin's ingredient citing deviation from good manufacturing practices. «Livemint, Jul 15»
7
Compass EMP Lists Three New Exchange-Traded Funds on The …
The 100 largest U.S. based companies with four quarters of positive earnings are weighted based on their daily standard deviation (volatility). «Satellite PR News, Jul 15»
8
I Have a Theory - GoldSeek.com
I went back years and found no deviation of this correlation of note until this past week. Something dramatic happened after the Greek vote. «Gold Seek, Jul 15»
9
Retinal function, structure changes in proliferative diabetic …
The FDP mean deviation was –8.20 for patients who had undergone PRP, –5.48 for those who had not and 1.07 for the controls, with both ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
10
Detroit cop accused of firing shots seeks mental health treatment
Rabaut said he is making a second request, a “deviation” from the Macomb County Prosecutors' Office policy, for entry into Mental Health Court ... «The Macomb Daily, Jul 15»

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