Deviation

(noun.) deviate behavior.

(noun.) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances.

(noun.) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function.

(noun.) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; 'the deviation from the mean'.

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• The bending or deviation of light in its passage from one substance to another is called refraction. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The mode now generally employed to correct deviation is by introducing on board ship masses of iron and magnets to neutralize the action of the ship’s magnetism so far as possible. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Do not blame him, however, for departing from his character, where the deviation is necessary. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• What do We Mean by Deviation of the Compass? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Accurate measurements show that these ornaments were not handwork, for there is not the slightest deviation in dimensions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The deviation or displacement caused by glass as thin as window panes is too slight to be noticed, and we are not conscious that objects are out of position. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• We could dispatch messengers to Adrian, to inform him of our deviation from the original plan. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In iron ships the amount of deviation depends upon the direction, with regard to the magnetic meridian, in which the ship lay when being built. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When people speak of deviation of the compass they mean the difference of a ship’s compass from the magnetic meridian, caused by the near presence of iron. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Her own children drew her into no deviation from the even tenor of her stoic calm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• By law, the deviation from the standard weight, in delivering to him, must not exceed three pennyweights in one thousand double eagles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• On the contrary, it tends to suppress them, just because they are deviations from what is current. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Differences of temperature and density of the parts of the original mass account for the eccentricity of orbits, and deviations fro m the plane of the equator. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The teachers' business is to hold the pupils up to these requirements and to punish the inevitable deviations which occur. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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