what does deviation mean?
DEVIATION as NOUN
- Meaning
- a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
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- a diversion from the main highway
- a digression into irrelevant details
- a deflection from his goal
Hypernyms(s) deviation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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Hypernyms(s) deviation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances
Hypernyms(s) deviation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function
Hypernyms(s) deviation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
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- the deviation from the mean
Hypernyms(s) deviation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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