different between deviation vs transformation

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

Borrowed from Middle French, from Ecclesiastical Latin tr?nsf?rm?ti?.Morphologically transform +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æns.f???me?.??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?æns.f?(?)?me?.??n/
• Hyphenation: trans?for?ma?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

transformation (countable and uncountable, plural transformations)

1. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
2. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
3. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
4. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
5. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
6. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.

Synonyms

• metamorphosis
• transmogrification
• transmutation
• transfiguration

Derived terms

• transformational

Related terms

• transform
• Lorentz transformation

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tr?nsf?rm?ti?, tr?nsf?rm?ti?nem, from Latin tr?nsf?rm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s.f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

transformation f (plural transformations)

1. transformation
2. (rugby) conversion

Derived terms

• transformation de Fourier

Related terms

• transformer (verb)

Further reading

• “transformation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

transformation c

1. transformation