different between deviate vs deviator

English

Etymology

Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • d?'v??t, IPA^(key): /?di?vie?t/
• Noun:
  • d?'v??t, IPA^(key): /?di?vi.?t/

Noun

deviate (plural deviates)

1. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

   Synonyms: deviant, degenerate, pervert

   • 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [1]

     ...Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be...

   • 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [2]

     Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ...

   • 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [3]

     ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...

2. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
   • 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]

     It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...

   • 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [5]

     This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.

   • 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [6]

     This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...

Translations

Verb

deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)

1. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
3. (transitive) To cause to diverge.

Synonyms

• (change course): swerve, veer
• (stray): stray, wander

Translations

Related terms

• deviant
• deviation

Italian

Verb

deviate

1. second-person plural present present subjunctive/imperative of deviare

Anagrams

• vediate
• videate

Latin

Verb

d?vi?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?vi?

English

Etymology

From deviate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?divie?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?di?vie?t?/

Noun

deviator (plural deviators)

1. That which deviates, or causes deviation

Derived terms

• deviatoric

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /de?.u?i?a?.tor/, [d?e?u?i?ä?t??r]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.vi?a.tor/, [d??vi???t??r]

Verb

d?vi?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of d?vi?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of d?vi?

References

• deviator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• deviator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French déviateur

Noun

deviator m (plural deviatori)

1. diverter

Declension