Meaning

• The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road

• A departure from the correct way of acting

• The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

  "mankind’s deviation from divine will"

• (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.

• (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.

• For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

• The signed difference between a value and its reference value.