Deviation Meaning
/ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
nounA departure from the correct way of acting.
Sentence Examples
No deviation from the regulations will be tolerated.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Any significant ____ from the standard procedure must be reported immediately to management.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture."
— 2007, Nick Bentley, “Re-writing Englishness: imagining the nation in Julian Barnes’s England, England and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, in Textual Practice, volume 21, number 3, →DOI, pages 496–7:
""A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to.""
— 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:
"The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP)."
— 1992 March 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Explosive Decompression - Loss of Cargo Door in Flight, United Airlines Flight 811, Boeing 747-122, N4713U, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 24, 1989, page 2:
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Any significant ____ from the standard procedure must be reported immediately to management.