How to pronounce“deviate”in English
nounbut the vast majority of people who are currently deviating from these simple rules would do a lot better if they didn't. And if you feel the impulse to
deviate, cheat just a little. There's a lot more to say, including that you might want to overweight small cap stocks in your portfolio, or I think
many young people can prudently invest in stock, more stock than ordained by the birthday rule. But that will have to wait until I get better at balancing on
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Definitions of “deviate”
To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
“These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.”
To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
“His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.”
A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
“[…] 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 […]”
A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
“It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]”
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