different between deviation vs deviator

English

Etymology

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatioMorphologically deviate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /divi?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

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.

4. (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.
5. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
6. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
7. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

Derived terms

Related terms

• deviance
• deviate
• deviant

Translations

Anagrams

• antivideo

Danish

Noun

deviation c (singular definite deviationen, plural indefinite deviationer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “deviation” in Den Danske Ordbog

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