deviation
/ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/
noun
- An action or change that is different from what is usual, expected, or planned.
- The pilot reported a slight deviation from the flight path due to bad weather.
- There was a deviation in the test results, so the experiment had to be repeated.
- Any deviation from the recipe can change the taste of the cake.
- In statistics, the amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value, such as the average.
- The standard deviation shows how spread out the numbers are in a data set.
- A large deviation from the mean suggests the data is very varied.
- The teacher calculated the deviation of each student's score from the class average.
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