English

Etymology
Late L. deviatus, p.p. of deviare, from the phrase de via.

Pronunciation
Verb:
*d�'v��t, /�di�vieɪt/, /<tt>"di:vieIt</tt>/
Noun:
*d�'v��t, /�di�vi�t/, /<tt>"di:vi@t</tt>/

Noun
en-noun

1. sociology A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

#*1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis ¹
#*:...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...
#*1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing ²
#*: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 ...
#*2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes ³
#*:...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...

1. statistics A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

#*1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education ⁴
#*:It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
#*2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics ⁵
#*: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.
#*2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R ⁶
#*: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...

Translations
Finnish: poikkeava henkilö
Danish: afvige

Verb
en-verb|deviat|ing

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

#:He's deviating from the course. Follow him!

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

Synonyms
(change course): swerve, veer
(stray): stray, wander

Translations
trans-top|To go off course from; to change course; to change plans
Finnish: poiketa
trans-mid
Hebrew: �ס��ת (list'ot)
trans-bottom

trans-top|To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray
Finnish: poiketa
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Related terms
deviant
deviation

Category:English heteronyms

Italian

Verb form
deviate

1. second person plural present tense, present subjunctive and imperative of deviare

Category:Italian verb forms

fr:deviate
io:deviate
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ru:deviate
te:deviate
vi:deviate
zh:deviate

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