Deviation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEVIATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of deviating
• the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard
• the amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value such as the mean
• act or result of deviating
• The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
• The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
• 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.
• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
• the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function
• the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances
• deviate behavior
• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
• the deflection of a ship's compass needle caused by iron in the ship.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or instance of deviating; as; deflection of the needle of a compass caused by local magnetic influences (as in a ship); the difference between a value in a frequency distribution and a fixed number (as the mean); departure from an established ideology or party line; noticeable or marked departure from accepted norms of behavior

Words related to DEVIATION

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Words that contain DEVIATION

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How to use DEVIATION in a sentence

• Marco certainly mistakes, from distant recollection, the direction of his travels, which are very nearly south, with a very slight deviation towards the east.
• Understand then, obstinate little girl, that not a single deviation from the invariable laws which govern the universe has ever been scientifically proved.
• The foot is compared with the other for any deviation from the normal.
• All approximation to that language, in the same manner, implies a deviation from that purity and precision, which no one, we believe, ever violated spontaneously.
• Often they descend several miles over rooks and precipices, where the least deviation from the track would dash them in a thousand pieces.
• But when I wrote John Woodvil, I never proposed to myself any distinct deviation from common English.
• A particular part of the quay is appropriated to each description of craft, and a penalty is enforced for any deviation from port regulations.
• Here are the chief ravines, and here is the greatest seeming deviation from the original lines of the building.
• Nothing has yet been written, nothing has yet been said, which can be made to apply without deviation to the law of change, and also indiscriminately of persons.
• A reference to this deviation from what she considered a close Christian walk in life, will be frequently found in her subsequent exercises.
• Occasionally a deviation has been made, but always for what seemed good and sufficient reason.
• It will be seen that if we bring an electrified body near the disk, P, a deviation of the needle will occur.
• It thus appears that heresy, in the first century, denoted every deviation from the Christian faith.
• But if that untoward event comes athwart us in our present point of deviation, no body, I believe, can foresee into what port it will drive us.
• What did this prove? Clearly, a deviation resulting from some cause.
• VARIATION, a deviation in the size, shape, or other feature of a character or trait, from the mean or average of that character in the species.
• In the former verses from Nonnus we may see the method of deviation.
• Every deviation from the letter of the original is a deviation from the truth.
• By making a slight deviation, there was a country store which I could pass on the last day, where I expected to buy some presents for my mother and sisters.
• This deviation from the more direct road led us by Gonesse, and through a district of grain country, that is less monotonous than most of the great roads that lead from Paris.
• From this deviation I will now return to the year 1858.
• Nevertheless, we can here and there dimly catch a faint ray of light, and we may feel sure that there must be some cause for each deviation of structure, however slight.
• Besides, each mass of mercury, would exert some attraction on the weight on the other side, and thus lessen the deviation of the balance.
• His instincts, in becoming many, became confused, and in growing permanent, grew feeble and subject to arrest and deviation.
• I asked him if it was not hard that one deviation from chastity should so absolutely ruin a young woman.
• And here it may be observed, that it is not an attachment to forms, but an unreasonable change or deviation from them, that the Quakers regard.
• Secondly, because any such deviation in their youth is considered to shew, in some measure, a deviation from simplicity of heart.
• Hence the development led slowly to a certain deviation from the path of the drama.

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