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Synonyms for deviation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dee-vee-ey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌdi viˈeɪ ʃən |
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Définition of deviation
Origin :- 1640s, noun of action from deviate (v.). Statistical sense is from 1858. Related: Deviational.
- noun change, departure
- The view from the summit, made up for the deviation from my route.
- Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
- We cannot help remarking the danger of the least deviation from the path of rectitude.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- In all your dealings with her, can you tax yourself with no deviation from wisdom?
- Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
- Confound it, I can make allowance, sir, if you'll tell me your deviation!
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- The compass corrected for Variation and Deviation will show your course.
- Extract from : « Lectures in Navigation » by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
- No deviation or improvement that we could suggest had any effect in conciliating him.
- Extract from : « Lives of the Engineers » by Samuel Smiles
- He calculated the deviation in this case as of the 11th degree.
- Extract from : « Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt » by Eugene S. Ferguson
- Another case is the metamorphosis or deviation of creative power.
- Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot
- In artillery, the deviation of a shot from the direction in which it is fired.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- In Convallaria maialis a like deviation not unfrequently occurs.
- Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
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