deviation

See also: déviation

English

Etymology

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /diviˈeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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Noun

deviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)

1. The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
2. A departure from the correct way of acting.
3. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

   mankind’s deviation from divine will

4. A detour in a road or railway.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:

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

5. (aviation) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
   • 1992 March 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Explosive Decompression - Loss of Cargo Door in Flight, United Airlines Flight 811, Boeing 747-122, N4713U, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 24, 1989‎^[1], page 2:

     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. (contract law) 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. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
8. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
9. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

Usage notes

Most of the detour-related senses of deviation carry an implication of error or wrongdoing; however, the aviation sense does not.

Derived terms

• absolute deviation
• average deviation
• cyclodeviation
• deviational
• deviationism
• deviationist
• deviation ratio
• exodeviation
• immune deviation
• immunodeviation
• magnetic deviation
• mean absolute deviation
• mean deviation
• multideviation
• nondeviation
• overdeviation
• quartile deviation
• relative deviation
• sexual deviation
• signed deviation
• standard deviation
• underdeviation

 

Related terms

• deviance
• deviate
• deviant

Translations

act of deviating

• Arabic: إِنْحِرَاف m (ʔinḥirāf)
• Armenian: շեղում (hy) (šeġum), թեքում (hy) (tʻekʻum), խոտորում (hy) (xotorum)
• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie)
• Catalan: desviació (ca) f
• Danish: afvigelse c
• Dutch: afwijken (nl)
• Finnish: poikkeaminen (fi)
• French: déviation (fr) f
• Georgian: გადახვევა (gadaxveva), დევიაცია (deviacia)
• German: Abweichung (de) f, Abweichen n
• Greek: απόκλιση (el) f (apóklisi), παρέκκλιση (el) f (parékklisi), εκτροπή (el) f (ektropí)
• Hebrew: סטייה (st'i'a)
• Khmer: ការងាកចេញ (kaa ngiek cəñ)
• Malayalam: വ്യതിചലനം (ml) (vyaticalanaṁ), വ്യതിയാനം (ml) (vyatiyānaṁ)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m
• Russian: отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije)
• Spanish: desviación (es) f
• Swedish: avvikelse (sv) c
• Turkish: sapma (tr)
• Ukrainian: відхи́лення n (vidxýlennja)

state or result of having deviated

• Armenian: շեղում (hy) (šeġum)
• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie)
• Finnish: poikkeama (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Übertretung f, Verfehlung (de) f, Sünde (de) f
• Hebrew: סטייה (st'i'a)
• Khmer: ការងាកចេញ (kaa ngiek cəñ)
• Malayalam: വ്യതിയാനം (ml) (vyatiyānaṁ)
• Russian: отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije)
• Sanskrit: भ्रंश (sa) m (bhraṃśa)
• Turkish: sapma (tr)
• Ukrainian: відхи́лення n (vidxýlennja)

A detour in a road or other route

• Finnish: kiertotie
• French: déviation (fr)
• Maori: ara autaki

voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured

• Finnish: eksymä (fi), deviaatio (fi)

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

• Bulgarian: девиация (bg) f (deviacija)
• Finnish: poikkeama (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Abweichung (de)

statistical deviation

• Catalan: desviació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誤差／误差 (zh) (wùchā), 偏差 (zh) (piānchā)

• Czech: odchylka (cs) f
• Finnish: poikkeama (fi)
• French: écart (fr)
• German: Abweichung (de) f
• Greek: απόκλιση (el) f (apóklisi)
• Italian: scarto (it), deviazione (it)
• Japanese: 偏差 (ja) (へんさ, hensa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avvik

• Polish: odchylenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: desvio (pt)
• Spanish: desviación (es)
• Swedish: avvikelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: liwas, kaliwasan
• Turkish: sapma (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: deviaceso (io)

Anagrams

• antivideo

Danish

Noun

deviation c (singular definite deviationen, plural indefinite deviationer)

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Declension

Declension of deviation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	deviation	deviationen	deviationer	deviationerne
genitive	deviations	deviationens	deviationers	deviationernes

Further reading

• “deviation” in Den Danske Ordbog