deviation

deviate | American Dictionary

deviate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈdi·viˌeɪt/
to change from the usual way, or to go in a different direction:
He never deviated from his strict vegetarian diet.
We need to know when the bus deviates from its scheduled route.

deviation

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌdi·viˈeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]Any deviation from the party line is seen as betrayal.

Examples of deviate

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However, these saccades are subject to both systematic and random error, so that, on average, saccades will deviate from their intended targets.
Both approaches ultimately collapse into functionalist theorizing that do not meaningfully deviate from socially reductionist accounts of policy implementation.
These are exactly the kinds of issues most relevant to assessing the impact of member states' incentives to deviate on compliance.
Members of a community do not automatically follow them, but they are expected to know them, and if they deviate, to acknowledge that somehow.
Thus, ongoing circumstances may support pursuance of potentially deviating developmental pathways or deflect the individual back toward more normal adaptation.
All who deviated from gendered norms received vitriolic charges of breaking essential gender codes.
In this case, the energy dependence of the cross-section of nuclear excitation is considerable and the experimental curve deviates from a straight line.
The patient is not deviating from this theme, but is demonstrating that his focus is slightly different.
This may be due to the obliteration of deviating migration routes, but it can also indeed reflect the joint migration of allied clans.
As obligate parasites viruses are dependent on their hosts but their origins seem to deviate from that of cellular life.
The most severe shortcomings of this model are that the transport coefficients, in the collision-dominated limit, deviate significantly from classical values.
For the fuzzy supervised algorithm, the estimated robot paths deviated much less from the ideal robot paths.
The same methods are also inadequate for analyzing why the preference for cooperation deviates from instrumental rationality.
By the same token, the fact that human decision makers deviate from rationality in certain situations does not refute the fundamental assumption of instrumental rationality.
In reality, however, decision makers may deviate from this utilitarian perspective for very rational and transparent reasons.
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