deviate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To go off course from

   To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

   • Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
   • Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at.
2. 2

   To fall outside of, or part from, some norm

   To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

   • His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
3. 3

   To cause to diverge.

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   1. 4

      A person with deviant behaviour

      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 […]
      • Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]
      • […] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]
   2. 5

      A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or…

      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 […]
      • This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
      • This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...
   3. 6

      deviant

      • It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.

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