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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions deviate noun  (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC56783761&id=4B7nMfNnIZkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22a+deviate%22&as_brr=1 :...Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a 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 http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00181184&id=J24AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1 :Under these conditions the person who appears as a is a only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ... 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631184961&id=e-9OtYRo45cC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=GsTXt6FCAxGzfu9Z1Y5DBjGXb-0 :...The second confederate was also to be a initially... (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 http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN28006559&id=sKTVf2R9QcQC&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1 :It will be noted that for a x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130... 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0824704266&id=DHkXkXhpryAC&pg=RA20-PA279&lpg=RA20-PA279&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=V0CUzyD7DlXKCm_ehD84Trl8J5g :This difference is called a deviate. When a 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 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0470022973&id=czbzO5iD1Z0C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=-Erqbq87cIuqSaSOjXqw7Edaabo :This is a 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... verb (deviat, ing) (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. He's deviating from the course. Follow him! (intransitive) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray. Etymology: Late deviatus, p.p. of deviare, from the phrase de via.      Full Definition of deviate  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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