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deviation
noun
1 deviation
A variation that deviates from the standard or norm:
— The deviation from the mean.
synonyms: departure, difference, divergence.
Roget 374a:
sex,
sexuality,
gender;
male,
masculinity,
maleness
etc.
373;
female,
femininity
etc.
374.
sexual intercourse,
copulation,
mating,
coitus,
sex;
lovemaking,
marital relations,
sexual union;
sleeping together,
carnal knowledge.
sex instinct,
sex drive,
libido,
lust,
concupiscence;
hots,
horns [Coll.];
arousal,
heat,
rut,
estrus,
oestrus;
tumescence;
erection,
hard-on,
boner.
masturbation,
self-gratification,
autoeroticism,
onanism,
self-abuse.
orgasm,
climax,
ejaculation.
sexiness,
attractiveness;
sensuality,
voluptuousness.
[sexual intercourse outside of marriage]
fornication,
adultery.
[person who is sexy]
sex symbol,
sex goddess;
stud,
hunk.
one-night stand.
pornography,
porn,
porno;
hardcore pornography,
softcore pornography;
pin-up,
cheesecake;
beefcake;
[magazines with sexual photos],
Playboy,
Esquire,
Hustler.
[unorthodox sexual activity]
perversion,
deviation,
sexual abnormality;
fetish,
fetishism;
homosexuality,
lesbianism,
bisexuality;
sodomy,
buggery;
pederasty;
sadism.
masochism,
sado-masochism;
incest.
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Roget 291:
divergence,
divergency†;
divarication,
ramification,
forking;
radiation;
separation
etc.
(disjunction)
44;
dispersion
etc.
73;
deviation
etc.
279;
aberration.
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Roget 20a:
variation;
alteration
etc.
(change)
140.
modification,
moods and tenses;
discrepance†,
discrepancy.
divergency
etc.
291;
deviation
etc.
279;
aberration;
innovation.
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Dutch: aberratie, abnormaliteit, afwijken, afwijking, anomalie, deviatie, ecart, swing
Polish: deklinacja, zboczenie
2 deviation
The difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function.
Dutch: fout
Polish: odchylenie
3 deviation
The error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances.
Polish: dewiacja
4 deviation
5 deviation
A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern).
synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion.
Roget 279:
deviation;
swerving
etc.
v.;
obliquation†,
warp,
refraction;
flection†,
flexion;
sweep;
deflection,
deflexure†;
declination.
diversion,
digression,
depart from,
aberration;
divergence
etc.
291;
zigzag;
detour
etc.
(circuit)
629;
divagation.
[Desultory motion]
wandering
etc.
v.;
vagrancy,
evagation†;
bypaths and crooked ways;
byroad.
[Motion sideways, oblique motion]
sidling
etc.
v.;
knight's move at chess.
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Roget 245:
curvature,
curvity†,
curvation†;
incurvature†,
incurvity†;
incurvation†;
bend;
flexure,
flexion,
flection†;
conflexure†;
crook,
hook,
bought,
bending;
deflection,
deflexion†;
inflection,
inflexion†;
concameration†;
arcuation†,
devexity†,
turn,
deviation,
detour,
sweep;
curl,
curling;
bough;
recurvity†,
recurvation†;
sinuosity
etc.
248.
kink.
carve,
arc,
arch,
arcade,
vault,
bow,
crescent,
half-moon,
lunule†,
horseshoe,
loop,
crane neck;
parabola,
hyperbola;
helix,
spiral;
catenary†,
festoon;
conchoid†,
cardioid;
caustic;
tracery;
arched ceiling,
arched roof;
bay window,
bow window.
sine curve;
spline,
spline curve,
spline function;
obliquity
etc.
217.
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Roget 140:
change,
alteration,
mutation,
permutation,
variation,
modification,
modulation,
inflexion,
mood,
qualification,
innovation,
metastasis,
deviation,
turn,
evolution,
revolution;
diversion;
break.
transformation,
transfiguration;
metamorphosis;
transmutation;
deoxidization [Chem];
transubstantiation;
[Genetics],
mutagenesis
transanimation†,
transmigration,
metempsychosis†;
avatar;
alterative.
conversion
etc.
(gradual change)
144;
revolution
etc.
(sudden or radical change)
146,
inversion
etc.
(reversal)
218;
displacement
etc.
185;
transference
etc.
270.
changeableness
etc.
149;
tergiversation
etc.
(change of mind)
607.
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Moby thesaurus: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allowance, alteration, ambages, amelioration, amorphism, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, apostasy, approximation, asymmetry, bend, betterment, blunder, breach, break, buckle, bypass, bypath, byway, capriciousness, centrifugence, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, conceit, constructive change, continuity, contortion, contrariety, contrast, conversion, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crookedness, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, decentralization, declination, defection, deflection, deflexure, degeneration, degenerative change, departure, deployment, derangement, deterioration, detorsion, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation, differentness, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disorder, disparity, disproportion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, distortion, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, dottiness, double, eccentricity, episode, erraticism, erraticness, error, excursion, excursus, failing, fanning, fanning out, far cry, fault, fitting, flip-flop, freakiness, freakishness, gnarl, gradual change, gyre, gyring, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, imprecision, improvement, inaccordance, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, incorrectness, indirection, indirectness, inequality, inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, kink, knot, lapse, laxity, looseness, lopsidedness, maggot, mannerism, meandering, melioration, mercuriality, mitigation, mixture, modification, modulation, monstrosity, motleyness, mutability, negligence, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, odds, opposition, orbit, orbiting, originality, otherness, overthrow, peculiarity, pluralism, predictable error, probable error, protest, qualification, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, radical change, raggedness, re-creation, realignment, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, redesign, reform, reformation, refractoriness, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, rounding, screw, separateness, separation, shift, side path, side road, sidetrack, singularity, skewness, spiral, spiraling, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, standard deviation, strangeness, subnormality, sudden change, superiority, switch, tack, teratism, tolerance, torsion, tortuosity, total change, transgression, transition, transverseness, trick, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, uncorrectness, unevenness, unfactualness, unlikeness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unpreciseness, unrigorousness, unsteadiness, unsymmetry, upheaval, vagary, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, violation, violent change, warp, wavering, wheeling, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, worsening, wrench, wrest, wring, yaw ... show more.
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